The state-run WAM news agency said those sentenced Monday later would be deported.
Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says tracking impacts on the province's air, land and water is too important to be left to a group outside government.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he believes a 70 per cent result at his leadership review this week would give him the moral authority to stay on.
The ruling likely puts an end to the $200-million lawsuit involving as many as one million Canadians who saw cash on their expired Bell Mobility, Solo Mobile and Virgin Mobile cards disappear into Bell's pockets.
The service for Pascal Gosselin will take place in La Prairie, just south of Montreal.
Frank Iacobucci makes the recommendation in his report, released Monday, into the 2013 investigation by ethics commissioner Neil Wilkinson.