Thank you.
Again, welcome to the committee. You certainly are very important witnesses.
I would like to make an editorial comment. It's always interesting in politics that when things go wrong the opposition blames the minister. When things go right, I suppose the honourable thing would be to praise the minister, and I'm hoping we will get some of that praise.
Considering the tools at the disposal of the minister and the legislative restraint on her powers, I would hope they would take note of the speed with which this emergency is coming into focus and into a process of resolution. She certainly recognizes the underlying challenges that remain and she is going to continue to be involved with that.
Mr. Rabinovitch, I think your note of the actions and the statements of Mr. von Finckenstein, along with the minister's request directly to Shaw and Vidéotron, are part of the solution.
While I think that Mr. Stursberg's rendition of history is undoubtedly accurate and certainly worthwhile for us to consider, the difficulty is that for anybody who has been involved in business, we know that the profit you made last year is the profit you made last year. It may be the basis for going forward, but it nonetheless is something that isn't recognized in business. There isn't the same gratitude toward the concept of the profit that you made last year as there is perhaps among ordinary citizens in their day-to-day life.
So I wonder, Mr. Rabinovitch, considering that we are looking at how to go forward and we have talked here at the committee and everybody is aware of the enforcement potential, there's honey and there's vinegar. I wonder, with you being the major players you are with respect to the use of the CTF, if you could give us an idea of your attitude in terms of the go forward, recognizing that there can be a really stern fist, steel, inside the glove. How would you express the attitude of the CBC to the go forward, trying to work the longer-term resolution to this?