Whereas, on August 25, 1995, a petition was filed by independent publishers Southam Inc., Thomson Newspapers Company Limited, White Directory of Canada, Inc. and Koocanusa Publications Inc. requesting that Telecom Decision CRTC 95-14 be varied to ensure that telephone companies make available to them the same non-confidential residential listing information that they provide their directory publishing affiliates for the purpose of producing telephone books, on condition that the listing information not be resold, rented or otherwise disposed of to any other third party;

If you recall back nearly twenty years ago, Bell Canada effected a corporate reorganization in which BCE Inc. was created from Bell Canada so structurally separate companies could engage in activities without creating accounting and cost-allocation problems.

It is a subsidiary of, and owned as to 99.95% by, ITT World Directories Inc., a company incorporated under United States law, whose main business is the publication of commercial telephone directories worldwide.

On September 15 BCE Inc., the Thompson Corporation and the Woodbridge Company announced the creation of a multimedia company that would combine CTV, the Globe and Mail, Globe Interactive, an Internet content provider, and Sympatico, an Internet portal.