Courtesy of Sara Connors
September 5,2024
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, is denying a request from a public interest group to see the financial details of a deal an impending sale of the North’s largest telecommunications provider to a consortium of Indigenous businesses.
In a written decision last month, the CRTC sided with Bell and Northwestel that details of the planned transaction should remain confidential.
“I don’t think that the public will get much information. That’s the real loser here,” said John Lawford, executive director and general counsel for the Public Interest Advocacy Center (PIAC), a non-profit organization that advocates for consumers in regulated industries.
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Rather interesting. Why would details of the sale be kept hidden? Is there favouritism involved?
Smells shady as F!