In 2026 docket-cramming became the norm for most of the year: the CRTC routinely posted several proceedings of significant public interest with deadlines falling within a week of each other. One effect of this is that the ’30 days’ – by which the CRTC means calendar days, incidentally – granted by the CRTC as deadlines for most of its public consultations automatically become smaller: when two proceedings are happening simultaneously the available time fall to 15 calendar days, with three proceedings – 10 days, and so forth. It begins to feel like secondary school (‘high school’, using old-timey vernacular), when ever teacher scheduled papers due the same week.
As a result, posting to FRPC’s website fell further and further to the end of its ‘to-do’ list. For the moment, however, some non-CRTC time is now available.
These keenly following everything-CRTC will know that – faced with the possibility of a Direction from Cabinet regarding the CRTC’s implementation of the Online Streaming Act (which revised the 1991 Broadcasting Act) – the CRTC has shifted its focus to telecommunications issues. Apart from re-launching its review of consumers’ awareness of the CCTS in July 2026, the CRTC also held two ‘show-cause’ proceedings dealing with alleged breaches by telecom companies of the CRTC’s ‘consumer codes’ and invited comments on its proposal to merge its four consumer codes into one.
You can find FRPC’s submissions under its “Submissions” page.