Many Canadians follow telecommunications and broadcast issues at the CRTC from a distance – the cost of wireless services, the speed of their Internet access, the availability of broadcasting choice. Others engage more closely on issues such as net neutrality, Cancon regulation, or Netflix taxes. But there is one Canadian who doesn’t just follow the CRTC. She watches it through the use of access to information laws that present a perspective on the CRTC that would otherwise remain hidden from view. Monica Auer, the Executive Director of the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications, joins the podcast this week to talk about insider access, slow reimbursement of costs for public interest groups, the number of CRTC meetings, and the Commission’s seeming indifference to commissioning original research. The interview is interspersed with comments from current CRTC Ian Scott taken from one of his first public speeches after being named chair in 2017.
Archive for April 30th, 2019
The LawBytes Podcast
Recent Posts
Making the Best of a Bad Provision: Why Canada Should Work Toward a Copyright Term Extension Registration Requirement
Taking Value out of the Copyright Tariff Process: The Copyright Board’s Access Copyright Post-Secondary Tariff Decision
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 35: Allen Mendelsohn on Canada’s Copyright Site Blocking Saga
Honouring Ian Kerr’s Legacy: University of Ottawa Launches the Kerr Fellows Program
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 34: The Fight to Save the Dot-Org
Recent Podcasts
- Episode 35: Allen Mendelsohn on Canada’s Copyright Site Blocking Saga December 9, 2019
- Episode 34: The Fight to Save the Dot-Org December 2, 2019
- Episode 33: “Canadian Patenting is Not Going to Drive Anything” – Aidan Hollis on New Research on Patents and Innovation November 25, 2019
- Episode 32: Reflections from the Open Source Member of Parliament – A Conversation with Ex-MP David Graham November 18, 2019
- Episode 31: Is Canadian Media in a Financial Crisis? – Marc Edge With a Different Take on What the Data Says November 11, 2019