Larry Bagnell at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On April 23rd, 2009. See this statement in context.

April 23rd, 2009 / 12:15 p.m.

Liberal

Thank you.

I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying, but I'll be the devil's advocate on a bunch of points.

The bandwidth is provided by large companies, but the rest is provided by SMEs, by and large. All of those are part of the GENS system. And 70% of the non-bandwidth functions are currently provided by SMEs.

Why can't the large companies just continue to provide the bandwidth and the rest would be left open to competition for SMEs, anyone who wants to apply?

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