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Growing CRTC cost awards delays ‘problem for everybody’

News | 12/18/2018 7:44 pm EST
Growing CRTC cost awards delays ‘problem for everybody’
The CRTC's headquarters at the Terrasses de la Chaudière complex in Gatineau, Que. (photo by Anja Karadeglija).

Increases in how long the CRTC takes to pay public interest groups to participate in proceedings not only represent an existential crisis for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) but also a wider problem that could harm the involvement of other consumer organizations, groups are warning.

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