Thank you very much.
Thank you for taking the time to be with us today, and thank you, Mr. Anderson, for joining us via the Internet.
I have a broad-ranged.... We're talking about policy directives and.... I'd like to come back out to a vision here, for a moment.
I'm concerned. I'm hearing all about what's happening today, but what are the consequences if Canada does not have a very strong and viable broadband, does not have the capability and aptitude that we need to have in order to progress? I'm a business person; I think I've said this at this committee before. I own a company in biotechnology. We trade in data all over the world. We have to have access to the Internet. What are the consequences to our country if we don't do something better than what we're doing?
Ms. Song talked about the wholesale pricing principle as being a tactic we could employ. Mr. Anderson, you perhaps might want to lead on this one. I note that Britain has a strategy, a superfast broadband future that wants to be the best broadband in Europe by 2015. I think we could talk about the 2006 policy directive and all those things, but are we going to be where we need to be in order to be competitive and successful and have the jobs of the future that we need?
Mr. Anderson, I'll turn to you first, and then Ms. Song.