Mr. Bilodeau, at the risk of eliminating my ability to predict gas prices--because they do move in lockstep at the wholesale level across the country--Monsieur Vincent is quite correct, the wholesale price remains the same over the years. Certainly in the 17 years since I've been involved we've seen a substantial decline in the number of players. Although there have been remedies, at the end of those remedies, including the Texaco-Esso intervention you had, the refinery is ultimately decommissioned and mothballed. We've seen this across the country. It may not necessarily be for competitive reasons. Environmental restrictions may often be in place--and I'll emphasize this to my colleagues--including in the case of Shell in Quebec as well as Petro-Canada with the 15 parts per million sulphur request. Companies are not going to make these kinds of investments, and therefore we wind up with a supply problem.
In your view, would the power of investigation that Mr. Vincent proposes lead to moving from an administrative to a judicial form of inquiry, realizing of course the separation between the two since the days of the Combines Investigation Act and the old Restrictive Trade Practices Commission? Do you see this as blurring that administrative versus judicial function that once existed?