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Ottawa, 5 January 2010
Mr. Édouard G. Trépanier
Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs
Quebecor Media Inc.
612 Saint-Jacques Street
Montreal, Quebec
H3C 4M8
Our reference: 476016
Dear Mr. Trépanier:
This is in response to your letter of 10 December 2009, in which you request an extension of the due date for submissions in response to BNC 2009-661, the call for comments regarding the review of the community television policy framework, to allow time for interested parties to review the implications of the policy determinations arising from BNC 2009-411.
Please be assured that should the determinations arising from BNC 2009-411 have any implications for the community television policy review, the Commission will ensure that interested parties are provided with the opportunity to place their comments on the public record of that proceeding.
You also request that the TimeScape study “Community Television Policies and Practices Around the World” be removed from the public record of the community television policy review due to concerns that it was conducted by a company closely affiliated with the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), an active participant in a number of the Commission’s policy proceedings.
You state that “should CACTUS wish to file the study as part of its submission in BNC 2009-661, it is free to do so. However, it is unacceptable for it to be added to the record as a report that was prepared on behalf of the Commission.”
At the time that the Commission entered into the contract with TimeScape, it was not aware of the association of the study’s author, Catherine Edwards, with CACTUS. However, in light of her association with CACTUS and her statement in the BNC 2009-411 proceeding that CACTUS will participate in BNC 2009-661, the Commission is withdrawing the study from the record of the BNC 2009-661 proceeding. If Catherine Edwards or CACTUS wish to file the study in the proceeding, they are free to do so.
Sincerely,
Robert A. Morin,
Secretary General
c.c.:Mr. Yves Mayrand, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Cogeco Cable Inc.
Ms. Natalie MacDonald, Vice-President, Regulatory, Eastlink
Ms. Pamela Dinsmore, Vice-President, Regulatory, Rogers Communications Inc.
Mr. Michael Ferras, Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs, Shaw Communications Inc.
Ms. Cynthia Rathwell, Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs and Programming, Shaw Direct
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