Industry committee  We will need to study the order in council, but as far as we know, the guideline does not clash with the legislation.

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  I can't give you an answer, but I'll give you two answers. I'll try to make it short. One point of view--from a rural operator who has 4,000 to 12,000 customers and competes with Telus, SaskTel, Bell Canada, or Aliant--is why would I invest to bring my network and organization u

Industry committee  Following the important process that I described earlier, the CRTC had a very lively internal debate.

Industry committee  Very lively in the sense of very active, very intense.

Industry committee  The CRTC ultimately decided to interpret the sections of the legislation, including the one you referred to, in the manner recommended in the decision on the absence of regulations. Furthermore, did the commission believe at that time that this was the only possible interpretati

Industry committee  I can only give you the breakdown in terms of the voice-over-Internet product. And let's be clear that we're talking about five companies--Cogeco, Vidéotron, Rogers, Shaw, and EastLink. EastLink's product is not a voice-over-Internet product, but it has a very high competitive ma

Industry committee  I haven't been directly involved in those discussions, but you'll be hearing from Sheridan Scott, and I think she's probably in the best position to give you the response. From our point of view, it's been extremely educational, because we've been able to access a lot of competit

Industry committee  Mr. Shipley, I want to say first that the interpretation of our act suggests that we do not have, in relation to telecommunication rates and services--and John will correct me if I'm wrong--the option of saying let's wait and see what happens. We have, in fact, an ex ante regime

Industry committee  I'm sorry, could you help me with that?

Industry committee  Here's the counterintuitive reality: Nowhere in the world has competition in a former monopoly telecom system--and they were all former monopoly telecom systems--ever occurred without policy initiatives to foster that competition in the early stages. The discussion and debate rig

Industry committee  Mr. Masse, I can well imagine how you can't imagine it's revenue neutral, but believe me, it's something that we do in our industry regularly, and I don't claim to you that we get it to one dollar, totally, precisely. The real issue here, to be honest with you, is that people w

Industry committee  Mr. McTeague, you're referring to the proposed order in council. There are basically two tests, but it's clear that the one test is the one that constitutes the body of the innovation. Basically, that test says that where there are three facilities-based telecommunication provide

Industry committee  Yes. With the greatest respect, the market is not a market for stand-alone services. More and more, the market is a market of packaged services. So what I want to do is this. I want to get cable, I want to get high-speed Internet, I want to get my television, and possibly my wire

Industry committee  I'm not here to support either. I'm trying to provide you with as many facts as I can, and I don't wish to try to persuade you of the validity of one point or another.