Opinion: In a post-pandemic economy where resilience has shoved aside efficiency as the top priority, the federal government has been slow to bring that vision to the digital world, hscoffield writes.
After two years of weird shortages at the grocery store, no bicycles or kayaks on the shelves, congestion at the airports and passport pandemonium, of course we were going to lose the internet too.
When Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne emerged from his meeting with Rogers and the other big telecommunications companies on Monday, he made sure the world knew he understood just that. He was making a point of being the boss — ordering the companies around, denouncing the outage as “unacceptable” and demanding a quick fix.
It’s not at all clear that the plan Champagne is demanding within 60 days would have mitigated the Rogers breakdown of last week. Many critics have argued that breaking up the oligopoly that is our telecommunications industry and making the market more competitive by enticing new players in to do business would do wonders for whipping Rogers into shape. The first step would be for Champagne to give Rogers’s planned $26-billion takeover of Shaw a big and immediate thumbs down.
So aside from talking tough, Champagne and the federal government need to choose.
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