On September 12, 2007, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) made public the report "Review of the Regulatory Framework for Broadcasting Services in Canada" prepared by Laurence Dunbar and Christian Leblanc.

Dunbar and Leblanc were asked to examine the relevance of each broadcasting policy and regulation, and to make independent recommendations that would further the objective of more efficient regulation.  The CRTC will review these recommendations as part of its review of its policies for specialty and pay services, and for broadcasting distribution such as cable and satellite services. Some of the recommendations are that the CRTC consider less genre protection amongst Canadian specialty channels while maintaining genre protection for non-Canadian services, that stations should be free to advertise as much as they want, and that consumers should have more freedom to choose the channels they get from cable operators instead of tightly regulated packages.

To view the report from the CRTC website, please click here.