Thank you.
I'm interested because we have similar issues in Canada, but we just take them from a different point of view, which is, again, that of protecting our basic industries and how we have to save them.
I remember that when I was first elected there was still a discussion about media monopoly. There was still a discussion about limiting the power of one or two or three players from owning all of the newspapers in a given area or owning all of the media markets. Then we were told time and time again that if they were given more and more of that monopolistic control, they would reinvest locally and we would have a much broader field of voices. What they ended up doing, of course, was firing all the local editors and local journalists, and then they pumped in the editorial content from Sun Media or Torstar. Now, once again, they're coming back and saying that we need to help them.
I'm looking at this in terms of the telecoms, because in Canada they are controlling more and more of the market in terms of the app services and the online devices. They pretty much run all the big sports networks and you can get them on your phones. We have dealt with them throttling and cutting off competition because they brought forward this issue.
Therefore, I want to go back to the issue of needing to actually put in legislation on net neutrality, because there is an interpretation that we're okay here, but there's always pressure in Canada to say that these giants are now too big to fail in our Canadian market. We can't get Americans to come in and take over. We have to protect them. We've created oligopolies. We have not based it on consumer competition. I think we are susceptible.
Given your experience in the United States with the power of the oligarchies there, do you feel that we do need to have some kind of written definition to protect consumers?