Thank you, Madam Chair.
I had a question for Mr. Poilievre. I'll come back to it later. I'll address the comments made by my colleague Ms. Lambropoulos.
I see our study on Internet accessibility and affordability as different from a study on a transaction between competitors. We'll certainly have related recommendations that touch on the competition aspect, meaning the importance of having four players. However, I wouldn't lump these two things together.
Given the possibility of an election, the committee would benefit from discussing the recommendations that it will include in its report as soon as possible and from tabling the report in the House before it's too late. In my opinion, this constitutes a fundamental concern. We need to make sure that we conduct this study on Internet accessibility, which will obviously include the concepts of competition, so that the committee can make recommendations and table its report.
I don't know exactly when the report will be ready. Mr. MacPherson said early April. I'm not opposed to holding meetings during the break weeks. I think that the acquisition of Shaw is a very important issue for western Canada. Even though the issue is much less relevant to Quebec, it's worth looking at from a competition perspective.
I thought that it was important to hold fewer meetings. However, we must keep in mind that a report needs to be tabled as soon as possible.