Canadian Telecommunications Regulation Bibliography

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

As the authors note on the first page, this bibliography of 727 items includes “references to all materials available to us to the end of 1987.” It can be updated through the bibliographic section of CLIC’s Canadian Regulatory Reporter which comments on cases, digests, laws, and regulations. The arcane arrangement is typically subject-specialist: each section comprises a format, such as books or articles or government publications, sub-arranged by another format (e.g., cases) or geographic element (e.g., Ontario), with a classified subject index for the fine tuning of retrieval points. This is all right for regular users, but it can be puzzling for the occasional researcher. Other formats include sections that deal with newspaper and magazine articles, industry annual reports, legislation, and decisions by the CRTC, by the courts, and by the provincial boards. The decisions are the one annotated entries, and these merely state the decision that was made. Most of the citations are from the l980s; there is very little here in an historical perspective. But there is a short history in the Introduction on regulatory policy making in Canada. This is a good guide to previously published materials about Canadian telecommunications regulation.