Mr. John Lawford (Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre) at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 8th, 2011. See this statement in context.

February 8th, 2011 / 4:45 p.m.

John Lawford Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Thank you.

Mr. Chair, committee members, Mr. Clerk and staff, my name is John Lawford and I am counsel at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, PIAC. With me is Janet Lo, also counsel at PIAC. We are here today to represent PIAC and the Consumers' Association of Canada in your study of usage-based billing and its treatment by the CRTC.

I suspect that many of you have already read Bell Canada's defence of usage-based billing in the Financial Post of last week, the follow-up piece from yesterday, and also a response from TekSavvy, who are here today.

Mr. Bibic of Bell Canada stated that “the controversy has been wholly built on myths and misinformation". We agree, but they are Bell's myths.

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