Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be sharing my time with Mr. McTeague.
I have a very brief question.
The OECD report that was referred to earlier--and this will be in the same vein as Mr. Masse's questions--reported that in the countries that have liberalized their rules, there seems to be an initial push, where you have multiple people or corporations competing, but they all end up with three or fewer. That seems to be where we are now.
My concern is that we seem to have more companies coming in, which, as you mentioned, will have better pricing, and that better pricing, I honestly believe, will happen in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. I'm in northern Ontario, Mr. von Finckenstein. Where does that leave me in northern Ontario where the population is sparse and the service is not great right now?
We've seen historically that the service we've had has lagged behind that of major centres and that we have technology that may not be the finest. It's usually second-rate technology and it puts us behind the eight ball. How do you see further competition helping us?
Also, do you see regulation coming from the CRTC? Or should we have, in this new combined regulation, something enticing or regulating the people who are providing service to major centres to provide that service to northern Ontario or to rural Canada?