Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister.
One of the concerns in my riding, where we have Esso, Petro-Canada, and Shell for gasoline, is that nobody believes there actually has be collusion; there's just no competition because of vertical integration in the industry.
With regard to your model, you have telephone, cable, and wireless, which allow for the deregulation component to take place. What happens or what thresholds are in place if, for example, one of those three different pillars exits the market or is not really there in a strengthened position and is going through the motions, so to speak? There are many places where cable or telephone service has really been at the lower end of provision. So what happens if one of those exits the actual area? Does regulation then automatically get imposed back on that area, since they've lost one of the three pillars of the reasons for deregulation?