Macleans
BC Telecom/Telus Merger
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on 8 March 1999. Partner content is not updated. George Petty is a plain-speaking guy, not prone to superlatives. So when he told Telus Corp. shareholders last April that he wanted to turn the Alberta telecommunications company into one of the worlds "premier communications" firms, he was not bluffing.