I've read or listened to part of the information that was part of the committee. I think to some extent you're talking at cross-purposes. He was referring to the ability to launch an inquiry in relation to all the different types of hard cartel offences that exist under the act, things like price-fixing and collusion. They have all the powers that are needed to carry out search warrants, to make telephone interceptions, to have documents produced. All those powers are before them. However, if they are presented with a circumstance--for example, why is the Canadian retail market so sluggish in relation to competition, or why is there such concentration in that market--they don't have the power to go out and gather information to study that problem, even though its implications may be as great, if not greater, for the population and the state of competition as a whole than would be those of the individual investigations of the hard cartel offences.
So in relation to what these kinds of studies wish to deal with, they don't have the kinds of powers that would require them to collect the information, except on a voluntary basis. Certainly collecting on a voluntary basis is one way to proceed, but generally this is the planet Earth in relation to authorities, and to have the authority to compel the production of that information is generally pretty helpful when you are trying to get voluntary compliance.