Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
First, it's pretty clear that things are going well at Bell if you're a shareholder and a CEO but not if you're a worker or a consumer. Bell reported a whopping $2.3 billion in profit last year. As CEO, you, the chair, profited or pocketed $13.43 million in compensation. However, Canadians are paying some of the highest cellphone and Internet fees in the world. You laid off, in nine months, over 6,000 employees.
How does a profitable company justify these layoffs, particularly in light of the hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from the government? How do you justify that? Is it just about making even more profits? You're already profitable. What is the justification, then?