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BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov’t implementation

News | 01/29/2020 5:32 pm EST
Conservative MP's Michelle Rempel Garner and Stephen Blaney react to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel's final report and recommendations to government at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Jan. 29, 2020./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report recommendation that would task a renamed CRTC with regulating online news sites is the “ok, boomer” approach to the internet, according to Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner. 

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