Order. We will commence the 46th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, continuing our study on the deregulation of the telecommunications sector, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2).
We have two panels with us today. Our first panel, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., deals with competitive local exchange carriers.
We have a number of witnesses here today. I'll just read the list of witnesses in their order of presentation. We have, first of all, from Distributel, the president, Mel Cohen; from Telesat Canada, the chief financial officer, Ted Ignacy; from Access Communications Co-operative Limited, Jim Deane, president and CEO; from Persona Cable, Dean MacDonald; from Barrett Xplore, Mr. John Maduri, the chief executive officer; and from Bluewater TV Cable, we have the president, Tim Stinson.
Welcome to all of you. We do have an hour and a half, but as we do have a number of witnesses, we've asked that you limit your opening statements to three minutes. Then we'll go immediately to questions from members.
Mr. Cohen, we'll start with you for up to three minutes.