Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18
Chair: The Honourable DAVID TKACHUK
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Issue No. 40
Fifth and sixth meetings:
Examine how the three federal communications statutes (the Telecommunications Act, the Broadcasting
Act, and the Radiocommunication Act) can be modernized to account for the evolution of the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors in the last decades
WITNESSES
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada:
Daniel Therrien, Privacy Commissioner;
Gregory Smolynec, Deputy Commissioner, Policy and Promotion Sector;
Brent Homan, Deputy Commissioner, Compliance Sector.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
As individuals:
Marc Raboy, Beaverbrook Professor Emeritus in Ethics, Media and Communications, McGill University;
Gregory Taylor, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable David Tkachuk, Chair
The Honourable Dennis Dawson, Deputy Chair
The Honourable Julie Miville-Dechêne, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Boisvenu, Cormier, *Day (or Mercer), Gagné, Galvez, Griffin, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), MacDonald, Manning, Mercer, Plett, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator MacDonald replaced the Honourable Senator McIntyre (October 16, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Wetston was added to the membership (October 5, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne was added to the membership (October 5, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Griffin was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (October 5, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Bovey was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (October 5, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Bovey replaced the Honourable Senator Dasko (October 4, 2018).