Delta Mayor Wants CRTC Info on Border Blaster

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Delta Mayor Lois Jackson wants the CRTC to reveal what’s in the confidential consent agreement between it and ethnic broadcaster Sher-E-Punjab. The latter is in the midst of a contentious proposal to erect five 150-foot radio transmission towers in Point Roberts, a spit of U.S. land about 330 metres from the Tsawwassen, B.C. border. It was last fall that Sher-E-Punjab and two other B.C. broadcasters faced a CRTC hearing to explain their using U.S. antennae to avoid Canadian regulations. But rather than ordering Sher-E-Punjab off the air, the Commission issued a notice that it had signed the confidential consent agreement... (Broadcast Dialogue)