The sanctimonious commission, supported by a gaggle of preening consumer advocates, have hauled the country’s four largest cable TV providers – Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron – into a hearing room in Gatineau, Que. They are demanding to know why the $25 basic cable packages the CRTC ordered the cablecos to create beginning in March have failed to change the television landscape in Canada.
The commission could have saved a lot of time and money by simply looking in the mirror. If the cost of Canadians’ cable services are too high, it is the fault of over-regulation not free-market price gouging.
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