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Telecom Costs Order

Ottawa, 11 March 1987
Telecom Costs Order CRTC 87-3
In re: NorthwesTel Inc., General Increase in Rates - Telecom Decision CRTC 87-3
Application for costs by the City of Yellowknife.
DIRECTION AS TO COSTS
1. The application of the City of Yellowknife for costs in respect of the above titled proceeding is hereby denied.
2. The Commission considers that a municipality's participation in regulatory matters affecting its citizens is a recognized function of a municipality and, accordingly, that a portion of its annual budget may properly be deemed to be appropriated for this participation. Therefore, it is the view of the Commission that costs should not, in principle, be awarded to municipalities.
3. This matter was addressed in CN Telecommunications, Increase in Telephone Rates in Newfoundland, Telecom Decision CRTC 78-5, 5 July 1978 (Decision 78-5), in relation to the participation of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Municipalities (the Federation) in the 1978 general rate increase proceeding for CN Telecommunications in Newfoundland, now Terra Nova Telecommunications Inc.
4. In arriving at a decision to award costs to the Federation in the 1978 proceeding, the Commission noted that the Federation played a "major role" in the public hearing and "exceeded the level of research and participation in the hearing that could reasonably have been expected of it"
5. The Commission also notes that, in the 1978 proceeding, the Federation was the sole intervener to participate actively in the hearing and that it represented all of the more than 200 incorporated municipalities in Newfoundland. In Decision 78-5 the Commission observed that "[i]n doing so, it represented not merely particular geographic or socio-economic segments of the subscriber population".
6. By contrast, the Commission does not consider that the participation of the City of Yellowknife in this proceeding entailed particular circumstances that would lead it to treat the municipality in the same manner as it did the Federation in Decision 78-5, either with regard to the level of research and participation or with regard to geographical representation.
Fernand Bélisle
Secretary General
Date Modified: 1987-03-11
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