It's so hard to get all these ideas off my mind in this five-minute thing.
I'm going to change gears one more time and go to the topic of telephones. Over the course of the last year—I'm a new member of Parliament—I've received many complaints from my constituents in Scarborough—Rouge River about international and overseas telephone calling cards.
These constituents, who are trying to connect with their family members abroad, usually overseas, are complaining. They would buy a telephone card that, for example, would advertise that they could call Pakistan for 100 minutes, but they would receive only about 50 minutes of actual talking time.
We've done a little research on our own. I understand that many of the providers deduct undisclosed hidden fees from the balance on the card and don't provide all of the actual posted minutes. These undisclosed fees allow phone-card providers to manipulate the rates. They decrease the actual minutes available to the consumer without changing their posted advertised rates.
I personally believe this breaks federal advertising laws. I imagine the advertising is there to increase competition and to—