Canadians lost billions when Nortel Industries suddenly collapsed in 2000, a victim of the technology bubble. The galling part was that no one saw it coming. The RCMP claim that’s because three men at the top of Nortel conspired to keep the true picture from becoming public.This decade-long drama reaches a pinnacle of sorts this coming week when Nortel chief Frank Dunn (left) CFO Douglas Beatty (centre) and controller Michael Gollogly (right) go on trial for criminal conspiracy to hide the truth. The charges could bring sentences of as much as 14 years for falsification of documents and public statements. The trial is scheduled to begin January 16, 2012 after opening processes this week.