Stratas delivered his decision from the bench before the companies involved had given their response.
"This is a high threshold,” he said. “It is not enough to pull at leaves and branches and leave the tree standing, rather the entire tree must fall.”
The Competition Bureau’s arguments had focused on what they said were four key legal errors that focused especially on how the proposed sale of Shaw’s Freedom Mobile to
Stratas said some of the points raised by the bureau were disputed as a combination of issues of fact and law, while the
"The Commissioner appears to be inviting us to reweigh the evidence, which we cannot do,” he said.
The deal, which Rogers hopes to close by
Champagne said in a statement that he was reviewing the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision and will be making a decision on the deal in due course.
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