Corriere Canadese says it will appeal OMNI decision to cabinet

By Denis Carmel

OTTAWA – According to a front-page story of the Italian newspaper Corriere Canadese’s June 4th issue, Jean Brazeau, VP regulatory affairs of CorrCann “has written a letter to the PM and individual members of cabinet expressing disappointment and saying that Corrcan is going to launching a formal petition to Cabinet asking for a re-determination, a change in the decision.”Of course, when the CRTC issued its decision on the licensing of a national, multilingual multi-ethnic discretionary service with mandatory 9(1)(h) distribution to Rogers Media to continue on with OMNI, it probably anticipated that the other applicants, which CorrCann was one, would...