{"id":86181,"date":"2023-02-13T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/news\/cira-statement-new-policy-direction-crtc\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:26:21","slug":"cira-statement-new-policy-direction-crtc","status":"publish","type":"cira_news","link":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/resources\/news\/about\/cira-statement-new-policy-direction-crtc\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRA statement on new policy direction to the CRTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ottawa, ON \u2013 February 13, 2023&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 This afternoon the Government of Canada released <a href=\"https:\/\/ised-isde.canada.ca\/site\/mobile-plans\/en\/policy-direction-crtc-competition-affordability-consumer-rights-and-universal-access\">its new policy direction<\/a> to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to promote competition, affordability, consumer rights and universal access in Canada\u2019s telecommunication sector.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to today\u2019s development, CIRA President and CEO Byron Holland, had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to see the Government of Canada issue today\u2019s new telecom policy direction to the CRTC. CIRA is particularly pleased that today\u2019s order requires the Commission to ensure that timely internet performance testing is conducted and data made available to consumers, which reflects several stakeholder recommendations linking network speed testing to better policy outcomes for internet users. CIRA commends Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne for his continued leadership on this file. This new direction will guide and challenge the CRTC in a renewed focus on building a trusted internet\u2014a mission at the core of CIRA\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Additional resource<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Read CIRA&#8217;s original submission:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/static.cira.ca\/2023-02\/CIRA%20Submission_Re-Order%20to%20CRTC.pdf\">Order Issuing a Direction to the CRTC on a Renewed Approach to Telecommunications Policy<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>About CIRA<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>CIRA manages the .CA top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. CIRA also develops technologies and services\u2014such as CIRA DNS Firewall and CIRA Canadian Shield\u2014that help support its goal of building a trusted internet for Canadians. The CIRA team operates one of the fastest-growing country code top-level domains (ccTLD), a high-performance global DNS network, and one of the world&#8217;s most advanced back-end registry solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, ON \u2013 February 13, 2023&nbsp;\u2013 This afternoon the Government of Canada released its new policy direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to promote competition, affordability, consumer rights and universal access in Canada\u2019s telecommunication sector. Responding to today\u2019s development, CIRA President and CEO Byron Holland, had this to say: \u201cWe are pleased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86182,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"slim_seo":{"title":"CIRA statement on new policy direction to the CRTC - CIRA","description":"Ottawa, ON \u2013 February 13, 2023&nbsp; \u2013 This afternoon the Government of Canada released its new policy direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommun"},"footnotes":""},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-86181","cira_news","type-cira_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cira_news_type-cira-news-type-blog","cira_topic-cira-topic-about","cira_author-delphine-avomo-evouna"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/86181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cira_news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/86181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cira_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/topic?post=86181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}