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What about public interest stakeholders, group asks Industry Minister

OUTSPOKEN CONSUMER GROUP OpenMedia.ca is miffed that it has yet to be invited to meet with new Industry Minister Christian Paradis.After a report on Bloomberg noted that Minister Paradis held meetings earlier this month with 13 of Canada's largest telcos - including Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw - the organization issued a statement claiming that “positions the Industry Minister to create key digital policies in the Big Telecom lobby's narrow commercial interests rather than those of Canadians”.“Time and again the Big Telecom lobby has shown its neglect, and even disdain, for the Canadian public's communications interests”, said OpenMedia.ca executive director Steve Anderson, in...