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The Bandwidth Battle

Last Updated: Thursday, February 3, 2011 | 3:27 PM ET

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The panel weighs in on the bandwidth battle between Tony Clement and the CRTC, plus how Canada is dealing with the crisis in Egypt and all the spring election talk.

Filling in for regular panelist Allan Gregg is Jennifer Ditchburn of the parliamentary bureau of the Canadian Press.

Read the Twitter debate about the CRTC between our panelist and National Editor of Maclean's magazine Andrew Coyne and Industry Minister Tony Clement on cbc.ca/politics.

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