--- title: 'The CRTC is broken' description: In an interview with the Toronto Star, CRTC chair Ian Scott says he sees nothing wrong with his having beers with his friend, Bell CEO Mirko Bibic. image: https://blogs.teksavvy.com/hubfs/head-in-sand.jpg --- [![teksavvy-logo](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/hubfs/TekSavvy_April2020/Images/teksavvy-logo.svg "teksavvy-logo")](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/) [![teksavvy-logo](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/hubfs/TekSavvy_April2020/Images/teksavvy-logo.svg "teksavvy-logo")](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/) - [News & Views](https://blogs.teksavvy.com) - [Teksavvy.com](https://www.teksavvy.com/) - [MySavvy](https://mysavvy.teksavvy.com/) - [Support](https://www.teksavvy.com/support/) # News & Views - Filter By Topics # 'The CRTC is broken' February 2, 2022 ### Subscribe to our blog and stay up to date No spam, we promise! You will only  receive updates from this blog. SUBSCRIBE SHARE [mailto:?body=https://blogs.teksavvy.com/crtc-is-broken-ian-scott-beers-bell](mailto:?body=https://blogs.teksavvy.com/crtc-is-broken-ian-scott-beers-bell) ![](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/hubfs/head-in-sand.jpg) [Subscribe to our blog](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/crtc-is-broken-ian-scott-beers-bell#signup-section) SHARE [mailto:?body=https://blogs.teksavvy.com/crtc-is-broken-ian-scott-beers-bell](mailto:?body=https://blogs.teksavvy.com/crtc-is-broken-ian-scott-beers-bell) ![Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/hubfs/headshot-web.jpg) Written By [Peter Nowak, Vice-President Insight & Engagement](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/author/peter-nowak-vice-president-insight-engagement) Topic [CRTC](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/topic/crtc), [Choice Words](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/topic/choice-words) The *Toronto Star* has an interview with CRTC chair Ian Scott about his infamous [photo](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/look-at-this-picture-then-look-at-your-internet-and-mobile-bills) with Bell chief executive Mirko Bibic in December, 2019, in which he reveals that not only have the pair been friends for many years, but that business was discussed over beers at their private meeting. Scott [told the Star](https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/02/01/no-rule-was-ever-broken-crtc-chair-ian-scott-says-meeting-with-bell-executive-was-a-drink-with-a-friend.html) he was simply hanging out with a friend: “I went for a beer with someone I have known for many years …. And it ended up he chose to address a broadcasting issue...![mirko-scott-beers](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/hs-fs/hubfs/mirko-scott-beers.jpeg?width=411&name=mirko-scott-beers.jpeg) As we have pointed out, this chummy beer date happened just days after Bell filed a major application to the CRTC, asking it to overturn its wholesale rates decision that would have led to lower prices for Canadians and the company repaying hundreds of millions of dollars it had overcharged competitors. Sure enough, the CRTC ultimately reversed its own decision, leaving internet prices sky-high and that money in Bell's coffers. “No rule was ever broken,” he claimed, without regard to administrative law and the CRTC’s own rules, outlined in this [PowerPoint presentation](https://www.teksavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Laizner-powerpoint-April-29-2014-presentation-003.pdf) prepared by Christianne Laizner, the CRTC’s former general counsel and now, vice-chair. But hey, your mileage may vary. TekSavvy is of course appealing the CRTC’s reversal to the federal cabinet and is calling for Scott's dismissal. The Twittersphere, meanwhile, is less than impressed with this new revelation: > The Chair of the CRTC says "no rule was ever broken" when he was grabbing a private beer with the CEO of Bell. > > The CRTC is broken.[https://t.co/sgTEhIRhVe](https://t.co/sgTEhIRhVe) > > — Michael Geist (@mgeist) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/mgeist/status/1488896862648160256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > [https://t.co/bESp9iecpA](https://t.co/bESp9iecpA) [pic.twitter.com/ujQ8aaVBg8](https://t.co/ujQ8aaVBg8) > > — Stephen Moderna-Hat-Trick Clark (@theMediaman) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/theMediaman/status/1488728189639831556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > Don't go for chummy beers with people you regulate how goddamned hard is this[https://t.co/VIaYvpKZfB](https://t.co/VIaYvpKZfB) > > — David Reevely (@davidreevely) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/davidreevely/status/1488692978000531456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > [#CRTC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRTC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) chair defends meeting with Bell CEO saying he was actually meeting with a friend. > … > Uhh, the chair of the CRTC being friends with the CEO of Bell isn't an issue? [https://t.co/cBCHewq1eE](https://t.co/cBCHewq1eE) > > — Steve Faguy (@fagstein) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/fagstein/status/1488680472917983232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > I am sick and tired of this favouritism and Buddy Buddy system that screws [#Canada](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canada?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/4O1uHlgonD](https://t.co/4O1uHlgonD) > > — Deborah Tood🌎🇨🇦🇨🇱💡☕️☀️🙋‍♀️ (@DebTood) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/DebTood/status/1488697574911614981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > Hey [@FP\_Champagne](https://twitter.com/FP_Champagne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) if you don't fire that guy now…. > > We already told you before. You are at the service of Canadians. [https://t.co/sxStnkLEe8](https://t.co/sxStnkLEe8) > > — Hubert Figuière (@hfiguiere) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/hfiguiere/status/1488697995227025411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > Here's a thought: if the head of the CRTC wants to be beer friends with Bell's CEO, then they shouldn't be head of the CRTC. [https://t.co/5Q0vifZKJJ](https://t.co/5Q0vifZKJJ) > > — Erin Knight (@erin\_d\_knight) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/erin_d_knight/status/1488698764567072769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > Would it be so much to ask that the CRTC not be made up of the BFFs of the people they're supposed to be regulating? > > — Corrosive Rabbit (@CorrosiveRabbit) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/CorrosiveRabbit/status/1488690685368844303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   > how it started/how it's going [pic.twitter.com/yXrBlC4E8O](https://t.co/yXrBlC4E8O) > > — bryson (@Bryson\_M) [February 2, 2022](https://twitter.com/Bryson_M/status/1488907871924465668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)   [Previous Post](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/three-telcos-in-a-trenchcoat-industry-policy-sway-needs-attention) [View all posts](https://blogs.teksavvy.com) [Next Post](https://blogs.teksavvy.com/what-is-the-crtc-hiding-about-chair-ian-scott) ### Subscribe to our blog and stay up to date ### Subscribe to our blog here! 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