I want to come back to you on your comments with respect to the relationship between the customer and the telephone companies.
When we asked the minister about the non-consensual distribution of customer information without a warrant, he said, essentially there's no role for the government to play, that it's a matter of contract between the customer and the telephone companies.
I have two questions for you.
First, do you agree that this should be purely contractual? Does government have a role to play?
Second, is there not a marketing opportunity here for the telephone companies, for one company to differentiate themselves from another by saying, “Regardless of what the government asks for, regardless of what immunity they give us, we respect your information, and that makes us different from our competitors”?
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