Bill C-11 committee  Yes, and in a minute, I'll let Jay, who is the lawyer here, chirp in. Our big concern is that while there is certainly an explicit provision on the recording, there's silence on the transmission. We think you can't have one without the other, and the problem is that we've certa

Bill C-11 committee  Jay, I'm not sure if we recommended anything specifically.

Bill C-11 committee  We think that notice and notice would work effectively.

Bill C-11 committee  Jay, do you have anything to add?

Bill C-11 committee  I totally agree with that statement. I was listening Mr. Noss's comment; the more restrictions you put on the service providers, the ISPs, the more costs we incur. The more costs we incur, the more expensive it becomes to build out these networks. We have some of the best net

Bill C-11 committee  We are probably handling several thousand of these requests per month, so the volume is fairly significant. We want to make sure that there is a consistency in the industry on how we deal with them. We think it would probably need a period of about 12 months for the industry to e

Bill C-11 committee  We certainly think that notice and notice is a far less intrusive means to ensure that the government achieves its policy objective. We would be very concerned if we started taking down service to our customers. The response by the customers to those measures would be significant

Bill C-11 committee  We are currently doing that, yes.

Bill C-11 committee  Notwithstanding the technical amendments, we are very supportive of the legislation.

Bill C-11 committee  I'm going to let Jay deal with that issue.

Bill C-11 committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, my name is Jean Brazeau. I am the senior vice-president of regulatory affairs and government relations at Shaw Communications. With me today, to my left, is Cynthia Rathwell, vice-president of regulatory affairs. To my far left is Jay Kerr-Wil

Industry committee  It's the same for Shaw.

Industry committee  At Shaw, the most significant part of our traffic is residential traffic. We are just now getting into the business market. As I said, the vast majority of our traffic would be residential.

Industry committee  I would venture it would probably be in the 75% to 80% range.

Industry committee  Maximizing our customers' experience also requires us to commit close to $1 billion every year for network investments. Those who say that bandwidth expansion comes at zero cost do not live in our world. Shaw's network investments have helped Canada become one of the most dynami