OTTAWA — The Competition Bureau said this evening that it has obtained from the Federal Court of Appeal a temporary suspension of the tribunal’s decision last week that denied its application to stop the merger between Rogers and Shaw.
The bureau filed an application in the Federal Court of Appeal seeking to have the decision reviewed, the day after the tribunal ruled within 15 days since the conclusion of hearings that a Videotron with Freedom mobile wireless assets would create competition in the market and that the Rogers-Shaw combination would not lessen it.
The bureau said in a tweet tonight that the court approved the “emergency” stay yesterday, adding, “We remain very disappointed by the Tribunal’s decision. We are carefully reviewing it and the reasons released last night.” (Cartt will have another story on those reasons.)
