Speedy passage of the licensing of an ethnic television station in British Columbia is expected after the federal government’s October 4 directive to the CRTC. The government has given the commission until Feb. 28, 2001 to report on the "earliest possible establishment of over-the-air television services that reflect and meet the needs of the multicultural, multilingual and multiracial population of the greater Vancouver area."

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