Self-Serving in the Extreme: Bell’s Broadcast and Telecom Submission to the BTLR Revealed

By Michael Geist
Image: Jose de Francisco https://flic.kr/p/GJHtQW (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The government’s expert panel on broadcast and telecommunications law reform is expected to release its preliminary report on the results of its public consultation next month. The panel has remarkably kept the submissions to the consultation secret, rejecting an open and transparent policy making process that the government insists is essential to good policy development. I filed an Access to Information Act request for some of the more notable submissions (some have been made available and are posted online by the FRPC). An interim release of that request just arrived in my inbox and I’ll have a couple of posts on point over the next few days.

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