Thank you for those words.
I look at France, and I can tell you that my riding alone is 16,000 square kilometres, with a population of about 100,000 people, so you can understand the challenges of getting service to people. Some would say that the business case—and I would argue the same way—says to just ignore that, to leave it alone and go to larger centres like Toronto and Montreal, the centres where it's lucrative.
You've made the argument that with competition the same level of service would come, regardless of where you are in Canada. I'm not sure if you're saying that competition would take care of this or that we would have to mandate it as a government in non-lucrative areas.
What we've found in the past is understandable, but just not acceptable: that cities would get prime technology and prime service. Yet when we look at rural areas, not only is the response slower, but the quality of what comes out there is lower, and the service offering just isn't there.
So when we look at establishing mobile networks, I don't understand why a company or a corporation.... I know you mentioned that they want to reach out, but the real money is in the big centres, and we understand that. I'm not sure that deregulation and opening up to a foreign owner who is trying to maximize his profit could guarantee service to rural areas and coverage in areas that are not densely populated.