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 week.
A spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy (BEIS)
told Professional Engineering that the government is examining how the «hydrogen
economy» can expand from the chemical sector to decarbonise other sectors.