Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank all of our witnesses for being with us today.
I apologize in advance if my computer shuts off. I don't think it will, but it's been warning me several times to restart. We'll see what happens.
I'm hearing everybody say that we need more competition. I understand, and I fully agree. I think the prices definitely need to drop. I represent a very socio-economically diverse population. Very many people in my riding would definitely benefit from better prices, even though we live in Quebec. So I agree with you 100%. It's just that currently, not all communities in Canada are connected. We don't have [Technical difficulty—Editor] needed in order to connect everyone just yet. Part of this merger is a promise to connect rural and indigenous communities, as many of you I'm sure have heard. This is something that we don't hear very often, because it's not worthwhile for big companies to necessarily go into these communities and have them connected.
I'd like to know from you about the ways in which we can incentivize these big companies to build in these areas, especially if we're going to open the door to competition and allow everybody to use this infrastructure, as some of you have suggested. What are the ways in which we could incentivize and make sure these companies see a reason or a need to actually go into these communities? The goal is really to have everybody connected as soon as we can.