Earlier this year, the CRTC agreed to allow Canadian cable and satellite TV distributors to carry the Al-Jazeera network on their systems but under one impossibly strict condition: The Canadian distributors had to have someone sitting on what radio operators would call the seven-second delay button. To carry Al-Jazeera, the cable company would essentially have to agreeto round-the-clock monitoring of Al-Jazeera's content to ensure that nothing that reached Canadian TV subscribers violated Canadian broadcasting guidelines that cover hateful or obscene speech.
With that recent license condition in mind, one group opposed to the arrival of FOX News in Canada said it would be happy to see FOX News get a license so long as FOX News would be subject to the same round-the-clock censor as Al-Jazeera. Here's this from the CRTC decision:
Twenty-six individuals suggested that the Commission should approve the addition of Fox News to the digital lists, but only if the Commission applied the same terms as it applied to the carriage of the non-Canadian Arabic-language news and public affairs programming service, Al Jazeera. In support of this position, some individuals cited an instance in which Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly allegedly berated a member of the family of a 9/11 victim for signing a petition opposing the Iraq war.