Mr. Speaker, with great respect, my friend has it all wrong. The fact is that the Competition Bureau will be very much involved in examining any merger and in negotiating with any successful applicant in the normal way. The Canadian Transportation Agency will be doing its statutory duty in seeing whether or not any proposition meets Canadian control regulations.
There are other issues that the agency and the bureau cannot deal with. They do not have the legislative competence to deal with these issues. Only parliament can deal with them. That is why we are proposing, in the sanctioning of any new agreement with respect to a dominant carrier, to have that enshrined in legislation so that the protections the Canadian public want will be in legislation which will be debated in the House. Parliament, on this entire issue, will have the last word.