No one made me any specific promises. I'm an academic.
I had hoped when it was first announced that there would be phase 1 and phase 2. Phase 1 was Bill C-19. We all expected that was going to be mostly small changes. I had hoped with the announced consultation, before the details were announced, that we were going to step back and ask what we were doing. Are we modernizing the act? As soon as I saw the consultation document, I realized that we were leaving unchanged the basic structure of the act and, more importantly, what the goals of competition were.
There was more optimism, in my view, after the Wetston consultation, which was much more informal and fewer people participated in. It was like the sky was the limit. Everyone just said, “Let's figure out what we want for the 21st century.” By the time we had the consultation, we'd already taken off the table considering the purpose clause and considering the basic organization of the act. I thought that was too bad, personally.