I certainly think if there were a perceived problem with competition or competition-related concerns in the construction industry, certainly that is something for which, with this bill, he or she would be able to launch an appropriate inquiry.
With respect to the compelling of information, when I'm not attending before parliamentary committees, I'm usually in utility proceedings, where we are attempting to get information from the regulated company. I can tell you that without those powers of compulsion for the tribunal, there would have been a considerable amount of information that would have been lacking before that tribunal in order to produce the record. Whatever the intentions—it wasn't the fact necessarily that the companies were attempting to occlude—this was necessary information for the tribunal. This happens all the time.
I trust that the Commissioner of Competition will have the judgment in relation to pursuing market studies to do it in a judicious fashion and to do it in a way in which the collection of information advances the goal of market studies and is not simply a fishing expedition.