Month: March 2019

  Christine Dobby of the Globe and Mail reported last week that an old colleague of mine from Department of Communications days had committed a no-no by accepting a million dollar contract from the Axis of Evil while still working for the government of Canada. (With apologies to Bell – they are really not that bad). […]

Tim  Greetings. I was forwarded your recent blog and regretfully have to say you are misstating my views. Since 1978 I have urged a directive power and had that endorsed by Lambert, economic council and indirectly the Law Reform Commission. I supported Bernier’s directive even though it came close to amending the legislation. I have […]

  I agree with this, wholeheartedly. To hell with facilities-based competition, as a concept. https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/konrad-w-von-finckenstein-direction-crtc-re-competition From: Konrad W. von Finckenstein To: The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Date: March 6, 2019 Re: Direction to CRTC Re: Competition Your government is to be commended for issuing its recent draft Direction to the CRTC concerning Implementing […]

        First, Navdeep Bains is owed our thanks for intervening with the CRTC by means of his proposed directive. It says all the right things, and it will almost certainly do some good. I will proceed to talk about how the obvious intent of policy directives can be avoided by the regulator, and […]