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Broadcasting - Staff Letter addressed to the Distribution List and John Carlo Mastrangelo (Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP)

Ottawa, 6 August 2024

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Distribution List

John Carlo Mastrangelo
Lawyer
Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Suite 2750, 145 King St W
Toronto, Ontario, M5H 1J8
jmastrangelo@lolg.ca

Subject: Staff Letter – Broadcasting – Reopening of the record for the Part 1 application 2024-0069-6

Dear John Carlo Mastrangelo,

Thank you for the letter dated 1 August 2024 filed on behalf of David Lepofsky.

In that letter, David Lepofsky requests that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC):

CRTC staff does not consider that the letter identifies any new circumstances or any additional legal principles that would establish a need to revisit the procedural determinations regarding a hearing or documentary production at this time. In this regard, CRTC staff notes the CRTC’s determination in its 26 July 2024 letter that parties have had the opportunity to make their cases and that the CRTC has the information it needs to make an informed decision.

Nonetheless, the letter filed 1 August 2024 has now been placed on the record of this proceeding.

CRTC staff considers it appropriate to allow the other parties to this proceeding, including the respondent, Bell Canada and Bell Media Inc. (collectively, Bell),Footnote2 to comment on this additional information and for David Lepofsky to be granted a final right of reply.

Accordingly,

Any comment must only respond to the letter dated 1 August 2024 and cannot raise any new issues. The reply must only respond to any received comments and also cannot raise any new issues.

Unless a compelling case is made to justify it, no further submissions will be placed on the record of this proceeding after this. In the interest of arriving at a just resolution within a reasonable period of time, the record will be closed, and the substantive issues raised in the application will be addressed based on that record.

Each submission must be filed electronically and served on the persons in the distribution list set out at the end of this letter by the dates specified. All submissions will be placed on the public record and posted on the CRTC’s website.

Subsection 25.3(1) of the Broadcasting Act provides that persons can designate certain information submitted to the CRTC as confidential. A detailed explanation of why the designated information is confidential and why its disclosure would not be in the public interest must be provided, including why the specific direct harm that would be likely to result from the disclosure would outweigh the public interest in its disclosure.

If you file a document containing confidential information, you must also file an abridged version of the document omitting only the confidential information. Alternatively, you must give reasons why an abridged version cannot be filed. Only the abridged version of the document will be placed on the public record and posted on the CRTC’s website.

Yours sincerely,

Original signed by

Nanao Kachi
Director, Social and Consumer Policy

c.c.:
Valérie Dionne, valerie.dionne@crtc.gc.ca
Michael Ostroff, michael.ostroff@crtc.gc.ca
Leah Paolini, leah.paolini@crtc.gc.ca

Distribution List

bell.regulatory@bell.ca
cgaristo@lolg.ca
david.errington@ami.ca
direction.generale@raaq.qc.ca
gabriella.rabaa@cnib.ca
info@virn.ca
jlawford@piac.ca
jlisus@lolg.ca
jmastrangelo@lolg.ca
kate.southwell@bell.ca
kevin@goldsteincommunicationslaw.com
president@blindcanadians.ca
richard@baf-far.ca
robert.lattanzio@arch.clcj.ca
tdawood@piac.ca
trashid@lolg.ca
znaqi@lolg.ca

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