Rogers, Shaw, Quebecor, Cogeco and Eastlink are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruling that retroactively lowered wholesale internet rates. The firms argue the ruling will cost them $225 million in retroactive payments, and that the CRTC overstepped its jurisdiction. (The Logic)

Talking point: The court challenge comes on the last business day to appeal this CRTC decision to the federal court. In the days after the ruling was announced, the companies argued it would reduce how many rural Canadian would have internet access. Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains could have overruled the CRTC, but chose not to saying he was “deeply disappointed” in Bell’s decision to cut its rural internet investments by 20 per cent. Bell is not part of this appeal, but the firm previously said it was looking at “all options.”