Ms. Yale, thank you very much for being here as well. I've know both you and Ian from previous work in the past. It's good to see both of you here today.
Right off the bat, I would like to offer my most appreciative comments, but I may have a conflict of interest, Chair, as I have so may Telus workers who live in my riding. The actual head office is right next to my riding, right across the street from CTV. There's no irony there, of course.
If I could, Ms. Yale, I wanted to ask if it's possible that you have taken into consideration the document that was prepared by the Economics and Technology Inc., by Lee Selwyn and Helen Golding, “Avoiding the Missteps Made South of the Border: Learning from the US Experience in Competitive Telecom Policy”. A number of recommendations are made in that, but the comment here is that “the US telecom industry will soon be almost as highly concentrated as it had been prior to the 1984 break-up of the ‘old’ AT&T.”
There is grave concern that without taking into consideration every single recommendation made by the panel report, which we agree with and which is confirmed by Mr. Intven, it should be taken from a whole perspective. Do you believe we should proceed with a change in telecom policy by following this? Or do you believe we should be doing it only with the recommendations by the minister, which are really a very small number of the recommendations made in the TPR report?