The CRTC has officially killed its proposed changes to laws regulating false or misleading news.

The commission that regulates broadcasting and telecommunications in Canada posted a notice Wednesday announcing it has decided not to pursue changes to broadcast regulations that would have narrowed a prohibition on false or misleading news.

The proposed wording would have banned "news that the licensee knows is false or misleading and that endangers or is likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public."

"The Commission announces that it will not amend the false or misleading news provisions set out in various commission regulations," the notice reads, referring people with complaints about broadcasters to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.

"The Commission further reminds the public that for the Commission to take action on a complaint relating to the broadcast of false or misleading news, the breach of the false or misleading news provisions must be flagrant. "

CRTC Chairman Konrad von Finckenstein told industry publication The Wire Report last February that he would withdraw the proposal, but the official notice was posted May 11.

Charlie Angus, the NDP's critic for Canadian Heritage, says the requirement that breaches be "flagrant" concerns him.

"I'm unsettled by the CRTC's statement that they will investigate instances of television licensees promoting false and misleading news only if it's flagrant. I don't know why they have to add that word in. To me it's a signal to buzz off and don't bother us with your complaints," he said.

Angus says the NDP will be looking at the CRTC's role during the upcoming parliamentary session because it's becoming "increasingly toothless."