CCR to explore CCTA leave to appeal filing on utility pole access decision
The next edition of CCR will report on the arguments made by the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) in its leave to appeal application to the Supreme Court of Canada on the recent Federal Court of Appeal ruling that struck down a 1999 CRTC decision on access to utility poles. As reported in the Oct. 3 edition of CCR Update, the CCTA last month filed its application with Canada’s highest court seeking to overturn the lower court’s ruling, stating issues of national importance required the Supreme Court’s intervention. In its application, the CCTA argues that Parliament has the authority to regulate access by broadcasting and telecommunications undertakings to provincial infrastructure for federal purposes. More details.