New Brunswick pub ruling to help Part II appeal

OTTAWA – A Supreme Court ruling on liquor license fees in new Brunswick will be used as fresh fodder as the Canadian Association of Broadcasters announced today it has asked the Federal Court of Appeal to order recovery of over $790 million of so-called Part II fees paid to the CRTC by Canadian broadcasters. In December, Honourable Justice Michel J. Shore of the Federal Court of Canada Trial Division ruled that Part II Licence Fees paid by broadcasters and broadcast distributors were an unlawful tax in the form of a licence fee collected on behalf of the government by the...