I don't want to speak on behalf of the CRTC—it was here last week—but I believe, from reading its policy decision, that it looked at the number of people affected, and the cost associated with it would have been considerable. If you took a per capita approach of what they spent in the States and just converted to the size of the Canadian population, it would be a program of over $200 million in Canada. I would fear that the administrative costs would be even higher, because we do not have the sort of food stamp process the American government has, to deliver the coupons.
On March 7th, 2011. See this statement in context.