Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank the witnesses for being here.
Mr. Natale and Mr. Shaw, earlier you said that communications in Canada was reaching a turning point not only in Canada, but around the world. You are merging your two companies to make them even more productive and more attractive, and to allow them to grow more quickly.
Based on your analysis, what are the key aspects of this turning point that communications is reaching around the around? In other words, we have launched a study into the affordability and availability of Internet services and some witnesses tell us that there will be roughly 100,000 satellites in the sky within 10 to 15 years. Did this factor speed up your decision to merge?