Request filed to institute class action against Bell

MONTREAL – The law firm Paquette Gadler Inc. filed a request on behalf of Marie-Josée Langlois Vinet “for authorization to institute a class action against Bell Canada,” a press release announced yesterday. The request claims Bell conducted door-to-door and other sales activities without the proper permits. More specifically, the claim is that Bell “carried out itinerant merchant activities through Bell Canada employees, representatives or subcontractors without having the permits required by law, thus contravening to the dispositions of the Consumer Protection Act, its Application Regulations and the Civil Code of Quebec,” the release explains. The class action is relevant to...