Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to start by saying that I definitely have some sympathy for what you're talking about here today. It seems that there's a real concern about a lack of competition and a lack of transparency. Some of those concerns seem quite valid.
I'm also concerned, as Mr. Bernier expressed earlier, about regulation. We need to be very careful when we start talking about regulation. There are often, with government regulations, unforeseen consequences. It can be a slippery slope once you start moving.
I noted the difference between the recommendations. The biggest difference seems to be that the coalition group over there is focusing a little bit on price regulation, whereas CFIB, I noted, does not have a recommendation for price regulation. There's a recommendation for other forms of regulation.
Mr. Thibeault, in his first round of questioning, used the phrase “one step forward” when he talked about this regulation, implying, of course, that there are other steps to come. Once we go down here, who knows? We might go after that.
I would be interested, Madam Brisebois, if you could talk about your organization's or perhaps the whole coalition's stance, for example, on regulating gas prices, regulating grocery prices, labour prices--a national minimum wage and things like that. I'd be particularly interested in, for example, regulating the rate on retail credit cards. They have the highest rates of interest paid. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on whether that should be the next step in terms of price regulation.