Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Ypsilanti, for joining us this morning. It was most interesting.
My riding is in a rural area of Canada. That often concerns me. You mentioned in your presentation that because of Canada's small population and large geographical size, there's a small capital base and equity is limited. As I mentioned, population is not just limited, but spread across a large part of the country.
The argument I've been hearing most often is that if we open up competition and open up to foreign ownership, we'll have more competitors coming into the market and offering more service. Now, I've dug around a bit, and what I've seen on the OECD website is that most OECD countries, if I'm not mistaken--and maybe you can comment on this--have three or fewer networks by the time all is said and done and the dust has settled.
Maybe you can comment on that and on how it would help Canadians to have better service. It seems to me that if we have two or three now and we open it up, all that will happen is that rather than having new competition coming in, we will end up with buyouts.
Is that something you've looked into?