This thesis looks at the development of Canadian satellite policy between 1960 and 1980 through a study of the policy decisions relating to Telesat Canada, its specific corporate structure, and mandates and ownership patterns. The analysis draws upon a modified "interplay" model, which examines public policy as an amalgam of interacting ideas, interests and institutions. On the basis of available documents, supplemented by interviews, and supporting secondary analyses, the sometimes contradictory decisions made by the DOC and the CRTC with regards to Telesat's Agreement with the Trans Canada Telephone system during this period are argued to reflect a policy process driven by the interplay of competing views of Telesat's primary purpose and, by extension, competing visions of what constitutes the public interest.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.60674 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Marston, Wendy |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Graduate Communications Program.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001289693, proquestno: AAIMM74513, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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