Moore fires back at telcos for waging "dishonest" lobby campaigns

OTTAWA – Industry Minister James Moore took the Big Three to task in a new statement posted to his website Tuesday evening, calling the telcos’ PR campaign pressing Ottawa to change its wireless policy a “dishonest attempt” to sway public opinion through “misleading campaigns.” “I think Canadians know very well what is at stake and they know dishonest attempts to skew debates via misleading campaigns when they see them,” Moore said in his online statement. Moore’s open letter was in response to criticisms of the government’s “handling of the Verizon file” levelled by Anthony Fell, a BCE board member,...