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Committee sets deadline for ISED reports on rural connectivity concerns
telecom | 04/12/2019 4:45 pm EDT
The House public accounts committee is ordering Innovation Canada to deliver — by this summer — updates tending to rural connectivity issues outlined in a critical auditor...
CBC privatization bill dies in House
Media | 05/04/2017 8:04 pm EDT
A private member’s bill to privatize CBC/Radio-Canada met a decisive defeat Wednesday night, after members of Parliament voted 260-6 to send it to the legislation graveyard. Saskatchewan MP and Conservative Party leadership candidate Brad Trost was joined by fellow Conservative MPs Arnold Viersen, Blake Richards, Kevin Sorenson, Harold Albrecht and David Anderson in voting to send the proposed legislation to committee for further study. Wednesday’s outcome wasn’t unforeseen, given the dearth of support voiced for the bill during debate in the House of Commons. In...