Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm going to return to the spectrum auction—something I've always talked a lot about in this committee. The timing seems to be really awful here. The spectrum auction was delayed by six months, and now this comes.... It really doesn't make any sense if Shaw is sidelined and one of our four competitors to a competitive market is now pushed out of the system. Nobody can really comment on it because of the timing aspect.
What you can comment on is this: Would you prefer a decision to be made about Rogers and Shaw before the spectrum auction, or would you prefer the spectrum auction to be held off until this time? It could take a long time for the CRTC and the Competition Bureau and the government to decide on this. This is one of the reasons I'm opposed to it—a lot of different reasons.
You must have a position on that. That affects your business cases and your value in the stock market quite significantly.