Bell Canada to refund the PST portion of the HST.
Bell Canada should delete the PST from monthly phone, internet and satellite bills for First Nation community members.
After the Ontario government directed businesses in the province to comply with directives to honour First Nations treaty rights to exemption from the 8 percent PST portion of the new 13 percent HST, Bell Canada asked First Nations customers to send copies of their certificates of Indian Status and a refund form.
First Nation people obliged, faxing copies of the cards, along with the form, but then Customer Service Agents from Bell Canada started telling First Nation citizens that the forms they had painstakingly filled out and taken the time to fax out, somehow could not be located, and that they would have to re-submit the information. Of course this would cause frustration, and in a lot of cases, end up with the community member still being charged the full 13 percent.
We would like Bell Canada to issue a public apology to our citizens and start obeying the law.
All telecommunications for First Nation citizens in Ontario were to be PST exempt starting September 1, 2010. This includes phone, cell phone, internet, cable and satellite services.
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