Thank you for your additions to this debate. I obviously and clearly disagree with your characterization of how we have managed foreign investment in this country since achieving power in 2006.
Let me talk directly to your question on telecommunications. Certainly, it's my intention to have a consultation with the public and with the industry about how to move forward with liberalizing telecommunications investment, allowing telecommunications companies to access foreign investment, if they so choose, or allowing for at least the possibility of Canadian and foreign companies collaborating more closely. Of course, the goal is presumably something the NDP would support, which is better choices for consumers and lower prices. If we're going to have an innovative economy, we cannot have high prices for telecom products. We need lower prices for telecom products, better choice, and more competition. These are good things for an economy to have.
It is bad when an economy doesn't have competition. When an economy is closed rather than open, when it is not open to new ideas and new capital, that's bad for an economy. It actually costs jobs; it doesn't create jobs. So I'm hoping the NDP will look beyond its ideological blinkers and will actually participate with an open mind on this process.