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Ottawa, 3 September 1993
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Decision CRTC 93-576
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Jacques Poirier, representing a company to be incorporated
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Les Hauteurs de Rimouski, Quebec - 921484200
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New cable distribution undertaking
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Following a Public Hearing in Quebec City beginning on 4 May 1993, the Commission approves the application by Jacques Poirier, representing a company to be incorporated, for a licence to carry on a cable distribution undertaking to serve Les Hauteurs de Rimouski. The operation of this undertaking will be regulated pursuant to Parts I and III of the Cable Television Regulations, 1986 (the regulations).
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The Commission will issue a licence expiring 31 August 1996, subject to the conditions specified in this decision and in the licence to be issued. This term is consistent with the Commission's practice regarding the licensing of new cable distribution undertakings regulated pursuant to Parts I and III of the regulations.
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The Commission approves the applicant's request with respect to section 23 of the regulations. Accordingly, it is a condition of licence that the applicant be relieved of the requirement that it distribute at least four television programming services as provided for in section 23 of the regulations, so long as it distributes only those U.S. television services listed in the current application or as may be authorized by the Commission. In approving this application, the Commission has taken into account the range of Canadian programming services proposed and the applicant's argument that the distribution of additional English-language CANCOM services is not justified for its subscribers who are almost exclusively francophone. The Commission acknowledges the intervention submitted by Canadian Satellite Communications Inc. with regard to this application.
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In Public Notice CRTC 1992-59 dated 1 September 1992 and entitled "Implementation of an Employment Equity Policy", the Commission announced that the employment equity practices of broadcasters would be subject to examination by the Commission. It encourages the applicant to consider employment equity issues in its hiring practices and in all other aspects of its management of human resources.
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This authority will only be effective and the licence will only be issued at such time as the Commission receives documentation establishing that the company has been incorporated in accordance with the application in all material respects.
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It is a condition of this licence that construction of this undertaking be completed and that it be in operation within six months of the date of this decision or, where the applicant applies to the Commission within this period and satisfies the Commission that it cannot complete implementation before the expiry of this period and that an extension is in the public interest, within such further period of time as is approved in writing by the Commission.
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The Commission acknowledges the supporting intervention filed by the Corporation Municipale de St-François-Xavier Des Hauteurs.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General
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