I would say that it goes beyond the bill before us today, Bill C-352. It goes to the point that I was making that competition drives productivity. There are innumerable studies that point to that very clearly. Competition drives productivity in an economy, and it is a key pillar of a capitalist economy for that very point.
As I was saying, we have not placed significant emphasis on competition in this country for decades. This was pointed out. The government put together a blue-ribbon panel in 2008 to look at competition in the economy. That panel—in 2008—pointed out how competition has been neglected in Canada and how competition is a key driver of productivity.
We're at the point now where the senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada said a month ago that “it's time to break the glass”. There's an emergency. There's urgency. We need to address these. In a speech, she pointed clearly to competition as vital to address this productivity problem in our country.