Good afternoon, Minister. Canada has a new government. The public is taking notice and it is slowly dawning on parliamentarians as well. The government seems to be telling Canadians that it will be taking a hands-off approach. Of all of the ministers who are involved, you seem to be the one who best represents the willingness to give free reign to the economy and let the citizens and companies fend for themselves.
In past years, one of the federal organizations that has best illustrated the tendency to want to control everything is the CRTC, which has recently come very close to disgracing itself. After having told Canadians that it had no intention of controlling the Internet, it then attempted a back-handed approach by ruling on voice over IP. So either the CRTC has not grasped that, notwithstanding the fact that the decision was overturned, the government has different policies now which means that it will continue to operate as it had under the previous government, or someone at the CRTC thinks that these are not firm intentions and the corporations can still hope to slip between the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
What should we be thinking?