“That's just the way it is, and oh, by the way, I just happen to be the CRTC chair.”
You list off seven points. Some seem straightforward and obvious to me, for example, that you would have consumer compensation in the way we do with airlines. I indicated earlier that you have communication standards with respect to outages. Undoubtedly there are some lessons to be learned in collaboration with the FCC around resiliency.
When you speak to competition concerns, though, and the need for real policy reforms, it is felt that CRTC has played around the edges. I mean, they have major powers here. They can order companies to provide services. They can order connections to be made. They can set rates to be charged and impose just and reasonable rates. They tend to do none of these things, from what I've seen.
When you look at additional substantive reform, we've looked at structural separation at this committee. There are any number of commentators who have called for opening up the sector to trusted but foreign competition.
Should we be embracing these ideas, and what else should we be embracing?