As the committee well knows, the provisions associated with abuse of dominance and predatory pricing have not had extensive use in Canada. There has been a great deal of reluctance on the part of the Competition Bureau to find conduct that would amount to abuse of dominant position; rather the Competition Bureau looks upon it as potentially a more efficient way of dealing with their own position.
I would not put a great deal of faith in the matter of increasing the penalties under those provisions, because they've been so infrequently used, and in fairness to the Competition Bureau, the associated test in the U.S. jurisdiction has also been very stringent, but perhaps in greater use than in Canada.
Particularly regarding the position of the new entrant competitor, if the best prediction of the future is usually the past, we don't have a great number of local exchange carriers competing with incumbent carriers at this point in time. By and large, they've been unsuccessful in maintaining competitions. Some would say because of the barriers that have been put in place by the dominant company, and some say that it's simply a matter of the economies of scale.