Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all of our witnesses for appearing before our committee today.
I'd like to start my line of questioning with the Competition Bureau and dig down into the differences between a study and an investigation.
Your release did state that “unlike many of its foreign counterparts, the Bureau does not have the power to compel businesses to provide such information for the Study.” In the annex, you listed some of the countries, including the United States, Mexico, New Zealand and the European Union.
Some of the information that you could glean from this exercise could potentially lead to an investigation. I guess a company, because they're not compelled to release this information, could withhold information that would be vital and might serve as the basis for you to launch an investigation.
How are we, as policy-makers, to address this problem that could potentially exist?