Properly speaking, our mandate is telecom and the Internet. We've sometimes been dragged into commenting on groceries because it's so obvious to us in our communities that many of the issues are shared across both.
I don't want to overstep my expertise on this, but in addition to strengthening the bureau's hand in dealing with mergers in general, I think the market study power is important for looking at what's going on with groceries. We can't be sitting here three or four years from now being unsure about what component of price is due to consolidation. We need some hard study of this issue.
To return to the remarks Mr. Bester made, we need an effective timeline for it. As we've seen at the CRTC, studies or decisions that are delayed indefinitely often amount to not dealing with the problem at all. We can't be waiting five years for these kinds of studies. They need to happen within a year or two.