Head of federal telecom regulator did not breach Conflict of Interest Act: watchdog
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OTTAWA — The federal ethics watchdog says the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he held meetings with large telecom providers while they had files before the regulator.
One of the meetings scrutinized involved CRTC head Ian Scott and senior BCE Inc. and Bell Canada executive Mirko Bibic in an Ottawa pub in December 2019.
A week before the meeting, Bell Canada filed an application to the CRTC to review and vary a telecom order issued in August 2019, and in May 2021 Scott was on the panel that issued a decision that varied the 2019 order.
The report finds Scott’s relationship with the Bell executive did not meet the definition of friendship outlined in the act and that the relationship is “exclusively professional.”
