Mr. Speaker, last November the Minister of Industry assured this House that the appointment of a panel to review the CRTC's decision on direct to home satellite services was "in no way an overruling or the setting aside of the CRTC decision with respect to the exemption order that was issued. That order stands."
Now the government is changing that order. The government should not hold things up by retroactively changing CRTC decisions and creating new hurdles. Already we have a large grey market. Many Canadian homes are pulling in U.S. signals without any Canadian content regulations and sending money across the border.
We welcome Canadian competition. We urge more competition and the public wants more competition. However, further delaying the entrance of regulated D to H services will make it more difficult to reintegrate grey market users into Canadian regulated services.
Fairness to the public and program producers would-