Complaint Review: The Canadian broadcasting and cable TV industry -

Canada's broadcasters and cable companies are the biggest ripoff and scam artists on the face of the earth.  They never report any real news, ignore and gouge consumers.  This is how we improve the state of both industries through competition and empower consumers.    Help break up this criminal monopoly/oligopoly by sending the following letter postage-free (within Canada) to the Minister. 

The Minister of Canadian Heritage

House of Commons

Ottawa, ON

K1A 0A6

Dear Minister:

Please use your power under s. 7(1) of the Broadcasting Act to issue a direction to the CRTC to remove the following objectives from the Broadcasting Act's Broadcasting Policy for Canada:  3(1)(a), 3(1)(d)(i), 3(1)(d)(ii), 3(1)(d)(iii), 3(1)(e), 3(1)(f), 3(1)(g), 3(1)(i)(v), 3(1)(r)(iii), 3(1)(s)(i), 3(1)(t)(i).

Please use s. 7(1) to issue a similar direction to the CRTC to remove the following objectives from the Broadcasting Act's Regulatory Policy:  5. (2) (b) and 5.(2)(e).

Please use your power under s. 7(1) of the Broadcasting Act to issue a direction to the CRTC to amend s. 3(1)(d)(iv) of the Broadcasting Act's Regulatory Policy for Canada to read: be readily adaptable to scientific and technological change without disadvantaging consumers who choose not to upgrade.

Please use s.7(1) to amend s. 3(1)(t)(ii) of the Broadcasting Act's Broadcasting Policy for Canada to read:  should provide efficient delivery of programming at affordable rates, using the most effective technologies available at reasonable cost, without disadvantaging consumers who choose not to upgrade.  Canada’s cable TV rates shall be frozen indefinitely at current levels.  Canada’s cable companies will provide consumers with the maximum possible choice in analogue cable TV and radio channels.  Cable companies will refrain from moving channels from analogue to digital cable and will immediately restore the digital channels they’ve already moved back to analog cable.  Distribution undertakings are prohibited from charging paper invoice fees. 

Please use s.7(1) to amend s.5(2)(c) of the Broadcasting Act’s Regulatory Policy to read:  is readily adaptable to scientific and technological change without disadvantaging consumers who choose not to upgrade.  Please use s.7(1) to amend s.5(2)(f) of the Broadcasting Act’s Regulatory Policy to read:  does not inhibit the development of information technologies and their application or the delivery of resultant services to Canadians without disadvantaging consumers who choose not to upgrade.

Please use s.7(1) to create new s. 3(1)(t)(v) of the Broadcasting Act’s Broadcasting Policy to read as follows:  distribution undertakings shall not carry “local availabilities” nor shall they engage in simultaneous signal substitution.

Please use s.7(1) to create new s. 3(1)(u) of the Broadcasting Act’s Broadcasting Policy to read:  the programming provided by the Canadian broadcasting system shall be free of:  superimposed headlines on the TV screen right after a commercial break or at any other time; split screens and voice overs.

Please use s.7(1) to remove s.3(1)(i)(i) and s.3(1)(i)(iv) from the Broadcasting Act’s Broadcasting Policy.

Thanks,

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