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Telus still pursuing cabinet wholesale reconsideration complaint despite CRTC ruling

Telco suggests ‘rare’ use of subpoena power if AG doesn’t hand over materials By Ahmad Hathout Earlier this month, Canada’s attorney general (AG) filed a motion to strike as moot an application filed by Telus in December that asked the Federal Court to quash a cabinet order that asked the CRTC to reconsider allowing the three largest telecoms to use the fibre facilities of Bell and Telus in Ontario and Quebec. The AG argues that, because the CRTC declined to change the interim decision after a proceeding on that order, Telus’s application – which alleges that cabinet held meetings with...