I think that indeed time is of the essence. The market is moving at an incredible pace. The digital revolution is something that is completely changing the way telecommunications work all over the world, as we speak. It changes the time span we can apply to different decisions of this sort.
I think the minister was right to move fast, but I think he should move just as fast in other sectors to deregulate them, because as we speak, we're seeing—and we could have a long discussion about this—that the IP protocol, the Internet, is becoming the universal vehicle for all sorts of communications.
Soon this committee will not invite cable companies such as we are, because you will not be able to define us as cable companies. As we speak, we at Vidéotron—and I know it's true for the others—have more than 700,000 Internet access users; we have 400,000 wireline telephone users; we have 1.6 million, or close to it, subscribers to our TV distribution system, digital and analog. Are we a cable company anymore? We're not a cable company anymore. We're a part of this digital revolution; we're a telecommunications company.
We do not have years to think it over; otherwise we're going to miss the boat in Canada and we'll be late in terms of technology.