Mr. Speaker, I always like to find opportunities to identify common ground with my colleagues. What my colleague has just espoused would be one of those circumstances.
The free market generally works well, but it sometimes fails. This is an exact example in which we have the operators coming together to stand up an organization that, over the last 40 years now, has used its pricing power to prevent competition, which would give lower prices for Canadians.
The member mentioned credit card interest rates. I would also mention this, just for the benefit of the House: The interest rates for credit cards in the 1980s were about 20%. Today, they are about 20%. Can we guess what the interest rates were in the 1980s? They were much higher than they are today.