Mr. Minister, with all due respect, if the people from northern Ontario didn't care about this issue, I wouldn't be here today asking this question. I'm asking the question because people from northern Ontario would like to make decisions about what affects northern Ontario. That way we could get a lot of projects started much faster. If it's good enough for the other regions, it should be good enough for northern Ontario.
My next question is on telecom. Minister, you talked about changes to allow for greater foreign investment in Canada, including in the area of telecom. I have significant issues with relaxing further rules around foreign investment in Canada. In northern Ontario, foreign ownership has actually resulted in foreign companies breaking their contracts with the federal government, laying off hundreds of workers, and trying to break unions by their attacks on bonuses and pensions. You've done absolutely nothing to stop them. Are you going to hold them to their contractual obligations with the Government of Canada?
With respect to the telecom industry, will you conduct an open, transparent process akin to your process for copyright, or will you sneak it into next year's budget like you did with the previous changes to Investment Canada?