Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications : The Politics of Regulatory Reform

by Rideout, Vanda

• ISBN13: 9780773524521
• ISBN10: 0773524525
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780773570504
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ
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Summary

InContinentalizing Canadian TelecommunicationsVanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades. Rideout focuses on the protection of the public interest, a crucial element neglected by most recent studies, and shows that although alliances have been formed between labour, consumers, and public interest activists, significant disagreements over issues such as free trade, long distance and local competition, and a targeted subsidy program for very low-income Canadians have meant that this united front has not been able to counter the forces of the new neo-liberal telecommunication policy regime.Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunicationsdetails the complex relationships between the various corporate and government interests, shows how the changes they brought about have locked Canada's telecommunications system into the orbit of the US system, and discusses the implications this has for Canadians.

Author Biography

Vanda Rideout is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	3	(13)
1 Telecommunications and the First National Policy	16	(14)
2 Canada's Permeable Fordist Telecommunications Regime	30	(17)
3 Telecommunications Liberalization: Phase One	47	(12)
4 External and Internal Forces on Canadian Telecom Policy Reform	59	(27)
5 Telecommunications Policy Liberalization and Centralization	86	(21)
6 Consumer and Public-Interest Resistance	107	(32)
7 Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications	139	(25)
8 Conclusion	164	(9)
Appendices	173	(44)
Notes	217	(8)
Bibliography	225	(22)
Index	247