Mr. Shipley, I'm not sure about these references to there never being an occurrence to enforce any anti-competition laws in other countries, but there's a suggestion that our telephone companies will not behave in anti-competitive ways because, somehow or other, either they're good corporate citizens or the $15-million penalty will deter them.
When I started Distributel, within a month of receiving service from Bell Canada, they were at the CRTC with an application to shut me down. For the first four or five months of operation, I didn't know if I would actually survive. I did prevail, thanks to a fair and transparent process at the CRTC where all arguments were heard, but in the subsequent years, there were at least three additional attempts by the telephone company to manipulate the regulatory environment or their tariffs in such a way that my business would have been precluded.
So we've seen this. I would even go so far as to dare to say that the lobbying efforts of the large telcos with the government are also anti-competitive in their nature, because they're trying to preclude us from the rules that we have now.