OTTAWA — Days after Cogeco’s CEO blasted Industry Minister Melanie Joly for authorizing Canada’s three major telecommunications companies to resell fibre optics to internet service providers on their respective networks, the only member of the big three telecoms in favour of the measure came to the minister’s rescue.

“We have a government that’s actually very committed to truly bringing competition and better choice for Canadians, I think, and not interested into political interference with their own administrative process,” said Telus chief technology officer Nazim Benhadid.

Last week, Joly sided with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) after it decided to allow for greater competition on existing networks for high-speed Internet services across th

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