Thank you for the question.
I agree. Someone, somewhere, did not want me to answer that question.
By and large, the bureau has an advocacy function, in addition to enforcement. As I was stating before we left, in the context of the 2015 review panel, the Competition Bureau provided a detailed submission providing advice, based on its competition expertise, on how to try to inject competition as much as possible in the rail system while acknowledging that market forces, which we would typically want to rely on, may not be appropriate in all instances.
With respect to our investigatory function, for issues such as price-fixing or abuse of dominance, the bureau investigates matters confidentially when there's reason to believe that an offence under the act has occurred. Price-fixing is obviously a major component of any antitrust policy in any country. In Canada these are criminal offences under the Competition Act which we take very seriously.
There is an immunity program in place that may prompt people to bring a bid-rigging matter or a price-fixing matter to the bureau's attention. These are matters that we would investigate in due course and take the appropriate action on, acknowledging that we reference such matters to the PPSC for prosecution as well.