Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for being here. It's good to see you again.
We've spoken about this quite a bit, John, I think, in the past.
This is a very difficult issue, isn't it? When we think about traditionally how Bell Canada, as you said in your opening remarks, laid out the groundwork across the country, the thinking was that when the company became privatized, when we opened it up, they were able to do that as a monopoly, and as such it really belongs to the people of Canada. Now what we're really doing is we're taking all of that infrastructure and forcing companies to share it. It gets more complex, because these companies now become public companies, and lots of people's pensions, or their investments, go into these companies. It really is a very difficult situation when we try to determine just what is fair and what isn't fair.
On top of that is the geography. We talked about Ireland. Of course, Ireland is probably the size of, I don't know, maybe New Brunswick, with the population of half of Canada. The same thing is true for so many others. They don't have the severe winter. This is a really tough place to do this.
First off, did we make a mistake, or did we lay out the wrong groundwork, when we broke up Bell? Were the rules not put properly into place at that time, and are we just trying to patch it up? Ultimately, if we're going to attract new businesses, they have to be profitable. At the same time, we can't steal profits, legitimate profits, from other companies that have poured shareholders' moneys....
Where's that balance? I guess that's what we're looking at. Can you maybe comment on that?