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Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Jean-Pierre Blais, defended his decision to lock horns with Netflix and Google at the recent Let’s Talk TV hearings on Thursday. He stressed that “informed” regulatory policy are not maintained over unsubstantiated claims, blogs or tweets.
Addressing the Vancouver Board of Trade in a lunch address, Blais alleged that “good decisions cannot be based on anecdotes about how your teenager is using his smartphone or gaming system…Nor can we make informed decisions based on one-sided blog arguments or 140 characters in the Twitterverse.” These remarks have come after Google and Netflix, respite being compelled by Blais to turn over key corporate data, refused to do so in the absence of guarantees of confidentiality. In his remarks, Blais claims to be standing on principle as he me made the first public comment related to the ongoing dispute with Neflix and Google, stressing that industry players need to bow to the regulator’s requirements for transparency and accountability. He highlighted that “such parties cannot refuse to provide evidence without consequences, especially when they appear before an evidence-based decision maker,” while refraining from explaining what those consequences might be.
During the Let’s Talk TV hearings, Blais told Netflix director of global policy, Corie Wright, that withholding business data places the company’s exemption to operate in Canada at risk. Explaining his final decision to ignore Netflix and Google’s participation in the Let’s Talk TV hearings, Blais stressed that “like other administrative tribunals, we struck out their incomplete evidence.”
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