Timothy M. Denton

The CRTC was envisaged to be governed by a chairman making decisions with the assistance and agreement of a number of commissioners, insofar regulatory policies are concerned. Otherwise I could see no need to mention their existence in the CRTC Act.  The law allows for the appointment of up to 13 of them. The Governor in […]

The CRTC got it basically right yesterday. While it did not climb down from its position that video on the Internet is subject to its jurisdiction, it made the correct decision that the broadcasting regime was to be more assimilated to the Internet than the other way around. See its treatment of licensed on-demand services […]

Our planning for it is deplorable, at the moment. An Internet-centric 9-1-1 needs to be planned by people who understand the Internet. Does this not seem obvious? Then why is our planning process excluding them? Because we have no adequate planning process. Here is a presentation I made at the Toronto ISP Summit in November […]

This continues the work of François Ménard and me in “Paradigm Shift for the Stupid Network“, in which I bring together the contrast between the “End-to-end Principle” and the legacy networks, tie it in to access to high-speed facilities, and why Canadian telecom policy, like that in the United States, seems not to understand what […]

In my time as Commissioner at the CRTC, the most significant accomplishment was turning down the proposal to regulate the Internet under the Broadcasting Act. I have posted my concurring opinion in new media, the term for the question whether the Broadcasting Act should be applied to the Internet in Canada. See also my more […]

Pamela and I dig into the reasons for promoting speech controls, as the Liberals are trying to do in their Online Harms proposals and Bill C10. We live in a time of extreme cultural insecurity. 

Jacinda Ardern represents a large and growing sentiment among left wingers that the problems of climate change skepticism, resistance to the great replacement, meaning mass immigration in societies undergoing demographic collapse, and hate, meaning whatever the political left does not like to hear about race, sex, class, ethnicity or culture, can be solved by speech […]

Is a regulated Internet still the Internet, or is it a giant cable system? The following is my presentation to the Senate Committee studying the On-Line Streajming Act. We oppose C-11 because it embodies a fundamentally illiberal idea of communications; because it constitutes a vast overreach of governmental authority; and because it threatens the engine […]

The CRTC recently reproved Radio Canada for discussing Les Negres Blancs d’Amerique, an anti-capitalist and anti-English tract of the 1960s. Apparently Radio Canada should not have mentioned the title even in the French language. Only two Commissioners dissented, pointing out that the Constitutional right to free speech might be involved, a point totally ignored by the […]

Hey there! Sometimes you have a good day, and that was captured last year in an interview with Senator Pamela Wallin on the subject of the then Bill C-10, now reintroduced as Bill C11, the update to the Broadcasting Act. The issues are exactly the same. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154654/9553337 Freedom of speech, censorship, what the Internet accomplished […]