Thank you, Mr. Dicerni.
You're giving advice to the minister on this extremely important file. My perspective, as someone who has followed combinations and concentration in a number of other sectors where there has been the promise of a boon to consumers, has in fact been the reverse. I need not mention the oil industry; I won't do that.
What I want to talk to you about, however, is the possibility that, given the lack of competition that currently exists, which gives rise ostensibly to the decision with respect to Globalive, many of these companies could very well find themselves in a combination of Bell merging with Telus, or Rogers merging with Vidéotron, sufficient to be bite-sized for one company to come in and buy them all up. Recognizing the shortcomings of our Competition Act, which I am only too familiar with, as you know, what gives you the assurance and how are you going to assure the minister that we will only see competition in major centres across Canada while the rest of the country be damned?
This is a scenario that I think many of us are concerned about. Have you thought about these things? Are these issues that you've raised with the minister? We certainly have apprehensions about this. It is being sold as a boon to consumers, but in fact it may very well turn out to be the reverse, without new entrants having the ability to get into the market with below-cost strategies and a number of others that are accepted under the Competition Act but are not accepted in other jurisdictions, in the United States and in Europe.