OTTAWA — A week after allowing Canada’s three major telecommunications companies to resell fibre optics to Internet service providers on their respective networks and those of smaller players, Canada’s industry minister is facing harsh criticism from the industry.

The uproar is coming first and foremost from her hometown of Montreal, where three major telecommunication companies are headquartered and where the frustration is still intense.

“I am in shock. In shock. I am profoundly disappointed,” said Cogeco’s CEO Frédéric Perron in an interview with National Post.

The Montreal-based company is not thrilled with the new minister’s first consequential move. So much so that he wanted to “ring the alarm bell” because he never thought that “such a damaging, dangerous decision” as the one s

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