Mr. Speaker, as we have seen in the House over the last few days, members like the one opposite are prepared to make allegations founded not on fact but simply on innuendo.
In the preamble to his question he tries to link the decision to table a direction with respect to direct to home satellites to some kind of apparent conflict. As recently as this morning's Montreal Gazette , we have yet another editorial opinion saying: ``The government in overruling the CRTC has made its future decisions easier. The guiding principle for the CRTC is that all its decisions reflect the best interests of consumers and that includes competition in choice''.
I can understand that perhaps the member opposite is not in favour of competition in choice and is not interested in the affairs of consumers. That is for him to say. But to suggest that acting in the interest of consumers is somehow motivated by a conflict is an entirely unfounded, improper and irrelevant allegation.