Thank you very much.
I'd like to explore a little bit the CRTC's particular role in this exercise. It occurs to me that we have a traditional challenge, given the demographic nature of the country's population base and so on, and proximity to the United States, applied now to a whole new series of manifestations of that challenge.
I think we all probably agree on some terms of the challenge. Maybe there's a mixed response to that, and we might disagree in some ways, nuanced ways perhaps. But I think the issue will be, where do we find the creative energy for the solution? So the first question becomes, what is your role and mandate, and how far can you go in assessing that? You've been given a mandate to take a look at these issues. How far does your mandate allow you to go in doing the evaluation? The next part is the response to that evaluation, and how far can you go to say to the government, these are the kinds of things that we would propose be done, so to what extent can we take some strategic alliance here in terms of our work? Then, finally, on the other end of this exercise, as a regulator where do you see yourself? And you can inform us in terms of recommendations that we might make to the government as a result of the work we're doing.
I think part of the problem will be where the responsibility rests for dealing with this. We will wish an outcome, we will expect an outcome, and we will sit idly by while that outcome doesn't materialize, because no one really knows whose responsibility it is to make sure that outcome in fact is realized. So could you respond to where you fit in this equation?