On the legislative and policy front,
Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next w
Bill C - 11 has passed the committee
stage and seems likely
to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts
to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected
to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable
progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that
Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next w
Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform
bill) may finally move forward next w
bill) may finally move forward
next week.
This
progressed all the way
to Committee
Stage until it ran out of time (when one Parliament ends, all
Bills that have not been passed must be re-presented and start again in the
next Parliament).