Monique Therese Lafontaine

Monique Lafontaine is an experienced communications and entertainment lawyer with over 25 years of experience. She served as Commissioner for Ontario at the CRTC, General Counsel and VP of Regulatory & Business Affairs of a publicly traded Canadian broadcaster. She also served as General Counsel and Director of Regulatory affairs at the Directors Guild of Canada.

Earlier in her career, she worked in the Communications & Technology Law Group at McCarthy Tétrault. Monique is member of Women in Communications and Technology. Monique regularly presents on the subject of communications law and policy. Monique is fluently bilingual in English and French.

She served as Commissioner for Ontario at the CRTC between 2 January 2018 and 1 January 2023. During her tenure as CRTC Commissioner, Monique rendered decisions on many complex telecommunications, broadcasting and enforcement matters. These matters included establishing broadcasting and telecommunications policies for Canada; developing eligibility criteria and making funding decisions for the CRTC's $750 million broadband fund; telecommunications enforcement; and rendering television and radio licensing decisions.

During her five-year term, Monique also served as a CRTC panel member for the public hearings considering the Rogers Communications Inc. acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. , the CBC/Radio-Canada licence renewal and the CRTC's telecommunications misleading practices proceeding.

Monique has advised domestic and international clients on a wide range of regulatory matters including public policy proceedings, CRTC broadcast applications (radio, satellite radio, conventional television and specialty television), amendments and renewals of CRTC television and radio broadcast licences; regulatory compliance; digital media regulation; Canadian content definitions and certification; as well as feature film policy and distribution.