That is certainly not the message that we want to give you.
However, on behalf of Cogeco Cable Inc., we are telling you today, as we did on October 19, that we are concerned about the way that these orders are made.
Our company as well as many other parties—not only industry people but consumers, telephone service users and all kinds of interest groups as well—have spent a great deal of time and effort to make presentations and submit accurate documents to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the CRTC, about competition issues in certain geographic markets. We are under the impression that no consideration has been given to any of this work, that it has been dismissed. We still don't have the master plan, which is a new telecommunications act, whose objectives would reflect the vision provided to you by the panel of experts appointed by the government itself. That concerns us. We do not want to cause any undue delay, but it is important that this work be done properly.
With respect to the forbearance order specifically, we are troubled in particular by the fact that this whole notion of significant market power, regardless of geographic market, has been dismissed.
You need to understand that the development of competition does not occur at the same rate everywhere, but is in accordance with the size and location of the markets. In small rural region markets, competition develops more slowly, it is more difficult and the economic base allowing for competition is much smaller.