Sorry to cut you off, but I don't have much time. Yes, we know each other, but not very well. My job is to ask you questions. That is what we are here for.
We are talking about competition. I listened carefully to the answers that you gave to questions from previous speakers. You said that this doesn't make any sense and that more competition is needed. We agree on that, and the Bloc Québécois supported Bill C-56. However, representatives from the Competition Bureau recently appeared before the committee and they told us that Bill C-56 is not enough. They explained that the bill is missing certain measures when it comes to proving that a merger will not harm competition, implementing better standards of repair and so on. Do we agree that more work needs to be done and that we need to avoid being negligent?
I really liked your document with the list of grocery store mergers and acquisitions. I don't want to be impolite, but this shows me that we have been negligent in this sector. How did all of these mergers and acquisitions get approved? When I spoke to the people from the Competition Bureau, they told me that the government should have stopped more of these from happening.
When it comes to another sector that falls under your department, the Competition Bureau representatives told me that the bureau advised against the Shaw-Rogers merger but that the Competition Tribunal went ahead and approved it anyway. The government is putting on a good show with the grocery sector by saying that it wants to take grocers to task and help people, but why then it is allowing similar negligence to happen in another sector at the same time? What is happening? Do changes need to be made to the Competition Tribunal?