This is an issue that has been debated in many sectors of the Canadian economy, and there is much evidence, particularly on the economic side, that shows the strong benefits of foreign investment to Canada.
What we have seen when we look across the board at many sectors, including telecommunications, is progressive liberalization over a number of decades of foreign investment regulations, across many countries and in many sectors.
In particular, for example, there is in telecommunications the liberalization post-1998 in most OECD countries. We've seen virtually all European countries lift most of their foreign investment restrictions on telecommunications. While I'm not an expert in European identity, I think I would argue that from an identity perspective, Europeans—the French, the Germans, the English—have all for the most part lifted these restrictions without negative impact from a cultural or identity perspective.
Telecommunications technologies are a means of transmission. They provide the opportunity to Canadians to communicate with each other faster and better and with more people at once. That ability to communicate with one another is being used by Canadians and by people around the globe. It's creating new opportunities for all of us, by having the best possible services and by having them available at the lowest possible price—and to the most people, to enable them to take advantage of them.