Thank you, Mr. Brown.
Certainly I share your concerns, and I think you pointed out the importance of any details in getting into substantive discussion of the issues. As I pointed out earlier, the essential services provisions in the Quebec legislation are some 20 pages long, so there is a lot to the issue.
The other point to make, and I made it earlier but maybe I should make it again, is that when you're talking about essential services with wireless telecommunications, 30 years ago if a line went to the police station or to the hospital, you were fine. But now, hospital workers, whether they are doctors or nurses, ambulance dispatchers or drivers, or policemen, are out in the field and they can be anywhere where other customers are. So the whole network, wherever it is, becomes part of the delivery of essential services.
That's really the issue that we see needs to be explicitly protected, and it's not in Bill C-257, and therefore we have the problems we have with it.