Thank you very much.
I want to close, as chair, with one final point before we suspend.
You've indicated that RIM was precluded, as part of the auction process, from bidding on both assets, what you call the LTE assets and other certain LTE assets, at the same time, in the same auction process, but the courts have decided to separate these two assets into two separate auctions. They did this to maximize the money raised from the disposition of Nortel's assets so that Nortel creditors and pensioners could get as much money as possible for their bonds and for their pensions.
To me, there seems to be a bit of an inconsistency here, because your colleague Mr. Balsillie has argued that under one court-supervised bankruptcy proceeding in the southwestern United States, at Phoenix, the auction be awarded to the highest-dollar bidder, that the successful bidder be allowed to be a foreign buyer, and that the successful bidder be allowed to move the business outside the country. Yet on the other hand, at another court-supervised auction proceeding in the northeastern United States and here, you and your colleagues believe the auction should be split up, that the auction be awarded not to the highest-dollar bidder, that the successful bidder not be a foreign buyer, and that the successful bidder not be allowed to move the business outside the country.
You've put our government in a very difficult position, because foreign direct investment is a very important part of the Canadian economy, and we as governments need to be consistent about FDI rules and about the applications of those rules. As chair, that's a point I want to make.
I thank you both for spending the time, on very short notice, to appear before our committee.
I will suspend this meeting for 30 minutes.