Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for appearing today.
It is a very important issue. I view this as a national infrastructure. We have a lot of knowledge as consumers who are dependent upon these services, but there is also the matter of the way this country is able to respond at a business end, and this is also a security matter to the world around us.
One of the concerns I have is with regard to deregulation, which is seen as the solution to a lot of problems. Why for wireless, for example, do we have higher prices, less broadband coverage, and inferior service compared to other industrialized nations? They are not being regulated. How can you explain the differences between service in Canada and the service the other countries are experiencing?