I'm concerned when I read stories of Goldman Sachs or AIG having an incredible amount of economic or capital leverage. They can come into a situation, work in cooperation, for instance, with any index investor, fund an exceptional purchase of Canadian assets, and then ultimately suggest perhaps control of content indirectly: who you hire, for instance, or what you cover if you own one of these assets.
I recognize the great world is not moving towards voice but towards broadband, and we can't walk away from the exception that there may be a question of what is covered and what is not covered.
But I can see a scenario--and it is one that I think has been proven time and time again--whereby individuals will purchase assets, drive prices below cost, prevent any new entrant from coming in, acquire public assets that have been paid for by Canadians over the years, and wind up closing shop for Canada to the rest of the world.
That's recognizing, of course, that we're 36 million people. I mean, the African and Middle Eastern markets represent potential in terms of numbers of consumers that are far greater.
So what I'm really driving at is do you not envisage a scenario whereby consumers will actually lose in the long run, as opposed to gaining?