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Many Canadians follow telecommunications and broadcast issues at the CRTC from a distance \u2013 the cost of wireless services, the speed of their Internet access, the availability of broadcasting choice. Others engage more closely on issues such as net neutrality, Cancon regulation, or Netflix taxes. But there is one Canadian who doesn\u2019t just follow the CRTC.\xa0 She watches it through the use of access to information laws that present a perspective on the CRTC that would otherwise remain hidden from view. Monica Auer, the Executive Director of the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications, joins the podcast this week to talk about insider access, slow reimbursement of costs for public interest groups, the number of CRTC meetings, and the Commission\u2019s seeming indifference to commissioning original research. The interview is interspersed with comments from current CRTC Ian Scott taken from one of his first public speeches after being named chair in 2017.\nThe podcast can be downloaded here and is embedded below. The transcript is posted at the bottom of this post or can be accessed here. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.\n\ufeff\nEpisode Notes:\nFRPC Policy 3.0 Conference (registration)\nCredits:\nCPAC, CRTC Chair Ian Scott Speaks About Internet Neutrality\nFairPlay Canada Urges CRTC Action Against Online Theft\nTranscript:\n\n\n\nLawBytes Podcast, Episode9.mp3 | Convert audio-to-text with the best AI technology by Sonix.ai\nMichael Geist: \nThis is LawBytes a podcast with Michael Geist.\nIan Scott: \nThis organization has a long tradition of being at the