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No Super Bowl simsub reversal without USMCA: gov’t to Bell

Briefs | 06/07/2019 5:00 pm EDT
United States vice-president Mike Pence holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a visit to Ottawa on May 30, 2019./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

The federal government isn’t interested in helping ensure BCE Inc. sees a reversal of the CRTC’s Super Bowl simultaneous substitution ban outside of the new free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, internal documents indicate.

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