Mr. Speaker, absolutely, Mr. von Finckenstein made a very impressive presentation and his report was excellent. However, on the first page of his presentation there was a letter from him to the minister. I do not have the letter here with me, but it said something like “Further to your instructions, I am making all my studies or my presentations on the assumption that there will be one dominant carrier”. If that is not a restriction, there never was one.
The minister, in his instructions, said “Do your report based on my criteria, to address my proposal that I like the best”. At best, the Competition Bureau was handcuffed and prevented from doing an open study.