Yes, he is. If the government follows through on the rest of our recommendations, which we're hoping will happen, that would be the case.
Let me tell you a little bit about why we put the recommendation for the policy direction into the report. It was a bit of an afterthought. What we were concerned about is the great fear of anyone who devotes a little bit of their private time, as we did, to a public initiative such as this, to spend the time and hard work to write a report. You're always worried that it ends up on a shelf and nothing is going to happen with it.
I was also very conscious of how long it takes to get legislation through. Shortly after I left the CRTC and went back into the practise of law, I was recruited in 1987 to work on a new Canadian telecommunications act, and it took until 1993 to get that act through. In between, there were always political issues and some very important ones, involving national unity and others, during that period. But the reality is, telecommunications policy never got high enough on the political agenda to see anything actually happen in those six years.
We were concerned that the CRTC would find itself with a government report, and even if they respected the thinking in the report, they would find themselves in a very difficult position, not knowing whether they should act in accordance with the report or just apply their own thinking to the issues. So we felt that the best way to get things moving in the right direction was to have the government implement a policy direction, and that's why we thought that should be done.