I guess one of the problems we're dealing with in telecoms is this--and again, as economists you like to just look at the widgets and not necessarily the cultural inputs. Telecom was allowed to become very concentrated, and government supported that at every step of the way. So if telecoms wanted to buy up newspapers and get into radio and television, they were allowed to do that. Now we have, again, a few very tightly concentrated entities that, while providing our cable, basically control the media in Canada.
You made a suggestion to throw it all out and it will all work great, and my God, all of the Conservative members were nodding and cheering; they think getting rid of any of the Canadian content rules is a great thing. But there's a public policy issue here. I come from the music business, and in the seventies you could never hear a Canadian song on radio until it became public policy that you were going to hear it. Now we have a market that is international in scope because public policy made it.
So if we're going to allow foreign entrants into the telecom market, are you suggesting that we simply allow them to take over, or ditch the Canadian content requirements? Because they're not going to meet them. If you're suggesting that the present ones don't like meeting them, how can we expect that they're going to meet them out of Europe or the U.S.? Should they be carved off, or should those obligations just simply be removed?