Industry committee  It's hard for me to speculate on that, not having been part of that debate, but I do think that the nature of these debates has changed over the years. We have had many debates in Canada about what economic ownership means to our culture and our identity, and it has spanned decades.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for having us here with you today. I'm the assistant deputy minister of the strategic policy sector at Industry Canada. I would like to introduce Helen McDonald, who is the assistant deputy minister of spectrum, information technologies and telecommunications, and Ms.