If I may say so, and with respect, I think that, first of all, it's important to recognize that when the Commissioner of Competition does seek information on a voluntary basis, there is generally a real willingness of the business community to participate in that. I imagine that would be particularly true where there are issues relating to competition that are a barrier to industry members participating.
I think our concern is giving the Commissioner of Competition a power to compel information and to conduct market-wide studies in a framework in which there is mandatory compliance. That requires, first of all, that the Commissioner of Competition undertake an extremely thorough inquiry in order to reach a fulsome conclusion, considering that it is a mandatory act. The costs that are imposed on the business community and on the Competition Bureau when that kind of mandatory action is undertaken I think outweigh the benefit or the perhaps slight added enhancement that would come from doing it on a mandatory basis rather than on a voluntary basis.
So I think we also need to consider one of the main reasons that has been advocated for mandatory enforcement, which is that people are not voluntarily complying because they have something to hide. I think this really gets at the heart of the issue, which is whether we are going on a fishing expedition to find out whether there are people out there engaging in criminal behaviour when there's no reason to think that may be the case. If there is a reason that people are not behaving properly in the market, the commissioner already has the power under section 10 to go out and undertake an inquiry.