The Supreme Court has upheld the CRTC’s authority to determine how to dispose of the Deferral Account, providing a rebate to consumers of portions not approved for broadband expansion. Judge Rosalie Abella, writing on behalf of the nine-member panel, said:
A deferral account would not serve its purpose if the CRTC did not also have the power to order the disposition of the funds contained in it. The CRTC did exactly what it was mandated to do.
Full text of Court ruling here.