In seeking to appeal a $17.9 million fine imposed by the CRTC in October for misallocating local programming spending, BCE Inc. has failed to demonstrate that the CRTC denied it a level of procedural fairness, and the regulator did in fact give it adequate notice before it imposed the fine, the Attorney General’s office told the Federal Court of Appeal this week. 

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