Telecom in Canada: A New Owner’s Manual

On May 6th Canada 2020 hosted a panel discussion titled “Telecom in Canada: A New Owner’s Manual — Making Sense of the Policy and Politics.”  This panel examined what foreign ownership will mean for the telecoms industry, consumers, and businesses.

You can read Lawson Hunter’s discussion paper, Scrambled Signals: Canadian Content Policies in a World of Technological Abundance.

Panelists:

• Konrad von Finckenstein, Chairman of the CRTC
• Robert Rabinovitch, former president, Canadian Broadcast Corporation
• Lawson Hunter, Stikeman Elliot, former senior executive at BCE and fomer federal head of competition policy and enforcement.

Moderator:

• Don Newman, CBC broadcaster, political commentator and Canada 2020 Advisory Board Member

Listen to the Debate:

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See the media coverage (sub req.).

This free event was made possible thanks to the kind support of Amgen Canada, AstraZeneca, Bluesky Strategy Group, Inc., CIBC,  Nexen, Pickworth Investments LP, Plutonic Power Corporation, Scotiabank, Suncor, TELUS, and individual members of the Canada 2020 Founders’ Circle.