Reviewing a 1980 Supreme Court ruling on the Inuit Tapirisat’s challenge of a cabinet decision test of cabinet power

"...The last time cabinet power on telecom was examined by the courts, the decision effectively shaped the legal view of cabinet authority for a generation. In 1980, a Supreme Court ruling on the Inuit Tapirisat's challenge of a cabinet decision on Bell Canada's rate structure effectively gave cabinet more blanket authority.

Hudson Janisch, a University of Victoria expert in regulatory law who helped revise the Telecommunications Act in 1993, said this court case is "a long overdue challenge" to the Inuit Tapirisat ruling and the expansive interpretation the government's lawyers have adopted...."

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