Ottawa appeals ruling in Mobilicity telecom case that found it liable for hundreds of millions in investor losses

The federal government has asked the Court of Appeal of Ontario to dismiss or vary the damages in the case related to investors in now-defunct telecom Mobilicity, alleging a lower court's decision relied on almost 30 errors of law, principle and 'palpable and overriding errors of fact.'

The federal government has appealed a decision by an Ontario court that found it liable for hundreds of millions of dollars for causing investor losses, when it unexpectedly altered spectrum policy.

In legal filings to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on Sept. 5, Catherine Lawrence, director-general and senior general counsel to the Department of Justice, asked that the case related to investors in now-defunct telecom Mobilicity be dismissed or that the damages be varied. She alleged the decision relied on