The Plot: Telecommunications and the People

This chapter discusses one of the novel “scenarios” proposed by the Telecommission Studies that concerned itself, for the first time, with the relationship between telecommunications and “the people” in Canada, emphasizing the urgent need to change the existing policies and regulations to include this vision and encompassing the new trends. It details the different conferences and seminars organized by the Telecommission studies that focused on issues of: access, public participation, privacy, freedom of expression, and the possibility to translate such ideals in the Canadian government’s public policies.