The way we've tried to impose public policy goals on this sector is through regulation. We say to the cable companies or the channels or the telecom providers, “Do this: provide Canadian content, provide access, and in return we'll kind of give you monopoly profits.” That, I think, is the understanding that we'll protect you from competition if you do these public policy things. That hasn't worked well, because what they do is try to give the minimum possible they can towards the public policy goals while making profits.
I think the lesson from all of this is that if government wants something done, government should simply do it. We want certain things done that don't make a profit; therefore, we have a government to do those things. That's just the way it is. So if we want to have Internet access in places where it's not competitive for a private company to put it in, we'd probably need to have government simply pay for it, rather than try to regulate companies or protect them from competition in all kinds of crazy ways that drive up everybody's costs and sort of, kind of, make the companies do it. It's just not an efficient way to do public policy.