However, while the CRTC is the body that issues spectrum licences, Cabinet decided, after the purchase, to bypass even the House of Commons and apparently also to go against the Telecommunications Act. Were you, in one way or another, certain after you were issued spectrum licenses that the CRTC would authorize the transaction regardless of the means used, whether the approval came from the CRTC or the government?
On April 20th, 2010. See this statement in context.