Okay, thank you, Mr. McTeague.
I'm using the chair's prerogative to take the next Conservative spot.
Mr. Intven, thank you very much for being with us here today. I do want to follow up on my dear friend Mr. McTeague's topic, which is the implementation of your panel report.
Your panel, obviously, was appointed under the last government, and reported to this government. Yet if you look at how the minister is going about implementing this and you turn to page 13:
The Panel suggests that the government should implement its recommendations in two phases:
In the first phase, the government should issue policy statements endorsing the development of a national ICT adoption strategy as well as the implementation of a new regulatory framework, and take steps to reform the policy-making and regulatory institutions. In addition, it would use its powers under the Telecommunications Act to issue a policy direction to the CRTC to interpret the policy objectives of the Act in a manner that is broadly consistent with major reforms recommended in the Panel's report.
During the second phase, recommendations requiring changes to existing legislation should be implemented.
When I read the policy direction and the proposed order from the Minister of Industry, it seems as if, to me, reading this, he's using the language that you recommended in your report. The language seems to be very consistent with what you recommend in your report. So it seems to me, as an outside observer, that the minister is doing exactly what you said in terms of the implementation on page 13.
So can I just get you to say, broadly speaking, if the minister follows through on the second phase—and my understanding is he will be doing that—that the minister is in fact following the path that you outline in your report?