Rogers CEO takes responsibility for recent outage in front of House of Commons committee

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – The House of Commons INDU committee heard from a series of witnesses today about the July 8 Rogers Communications outage that impacted Canadians across the country, including those trying to access emergency services. Both meetings the committee decided to hold before the end of July were held today back-to-back. First among the witnesses there were older white men in suits including François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. While the soon fired Rogers CTO, Jorge Fernandes was in Portugal, the minister was in Japan when he heard in the middle of the night (Ottawa...