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agency which regulated independent

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(that is, those other than

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) in

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. It served as the regulator for the independent companies until April 26, 1994, when a decision by the

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in the case Téléphone Guevremont Inc. v. Quebec (Régie des télécommunications), (1994) 1 S.C.R. 878 transferred Canada's provincially regulated telephone companies to federal jurisdiction, meaning that they would be regulated by the

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