Canadian regulators have denied the request from independent Canadian ISPs for relief from Bell Canada's new traffic shaping practices. As we've covered, Bell Canada recently decided to throttle P2P traffic before it hit independent wholesale ISP networks, an anticompetitive move aimed at ensuring that nobody could offer higher quality service than Bell Canada's Sympatico unit. In the hopes of something vaguely resembling fairness, those ISPs turned to the CRTC for help (the CRTC was also inundated with user complaints). No such luck:Bell Canada claimed to the CRTC that not even good will was harmed by their new throttling practices:This would appear to be only a denial of immediate relief based on proof of "irreparable harm" as defined by Canadian case law. The CRTC hints they could act on this issue in time, but one gets the feeling from the decision's tone they could be mirroring our regulators here in the States. In other words, a bureaucratically dysfunctional system that generally rules for the carrier with the biggest wallet and best lobbyists. This fight now hits the courts.