Prof. Jeffrey Church at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

I don't think they would be immediately crushed, because the same incentives that the ILECs have when they compete against Shaw and Rogers affect them when they compete against the mom and pop operations. They're going to say, “Even if I crush them, unless the Competition Bureau lets me buy them out so I can acquire those assets, those assets will still be there. Someone will own them and compete against me. It may not be the original mom and pop guy, but someone can acquire those assets, because they're sunk; they're there.”