Informal Request for ATI Records Previously Released

Organization: Privy Council Office

Year: 2020

Month: June

Request Number: A-2019-00385

Request Summary: Any records, including emails, that evaluate Liberal Party campaign promise to reduce cell phone/wireless bills by 25 per cent. Further, any records that discuss this same issue as described in the Minister's mandate letter: "Use all available instruments, including the advancement of the 2019 Telecom Policy Directive, to reduce the average cost of cellular phone bills in Canada by 25 per cent. You will work with telecom companies and expand mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) in the market. If within two years this price target is not achieved, you can expand MVNO qualifying rules and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission mandate on affordable pricing.". Time frame: September 22, 2019 to December 20, 2019. Please limit the search to records produced by PCO. Please exclude drafts.

Disposition: Disclosed in part

Number of pages: 10

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