I wanted to follow up on this issue of sitting on the six megahertz band. I think one of the ideological differences we New Democrats and the Conservatives have about the market is that although we also believe in the market, we just don't believe that the market exists because industry wants it to exist. To have competition, you have to sometimes lay down some rules. I've never met a single company, ever, that wanted competition; they want the market to themselves.
We don't have a marketplace in Canada. We have a family compact, and that family compact has grown bigger and bigger. They control more and more of the market, and we're being sold here, continually, the benefits of scarcity in an age of absolute abundance. My concern with the spectrum sell-off and the digital transition is that you have a couple of very large companies whose interest is to squat on as much of that spectrum as possible, even if they don't know what it's used for. This happens in mining all the time. Big companies always squat on the ground because they don't want small guys out in the field. They might not think to develop it, but they just don't want the competition.
What is the role of the CRTC in representing the public interest and saying that there are public possibilities and a lot of things that could be done with this? How do we ensure that the public is part of this?