I'm doing my best to try to be open-minded enough to hear all of the arguments for and against this transaction. I certainly share the concerns that I get in these emails about both competition and the impact on my local economy. The promise had been, I think, of 500 new research jobs to go into Shaw, but at the same time, I'm really struck by the absence of being able to hold any entity to any of the comments made at the beginning of a merge.
The last word on the difficulty is the tremendous investment that's required to get us into a 5G system across Canada that gets into the communities that are so terribly underserved and provide competition everywhere so that we can get better rates.
Will a larger entity that will compete with the other remaining entities...? Should there be an expectation that this large, new entity could provide competition to the other two?