Industry committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, members of the Standing Committee, ladies and gentlemen, I am Luc Lavoie, Executive Vice-President, Quebecor Inc. As you know, we control Vidéotron, the largest cable operator in Quebec and the third largest in Canada. The concept of competi

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  Mr. Arthur, if I may, right now, the rule isn't a time rule, but a market share percentage rule. You'd be surprised, and you will be surprised, to learn that, in Vidéotron's case, we are deploying our residential telephone service so quickly that we are about to reach the 25% lev

Industry committee  I would never say anything of the kind, Mr. Arthur. I'm not saying that our discussions are becoming pointless, but that the process is taking its course. We could have a debate. And the CRTC has agreed to engage in that debate. Was 25% the right percentage? Would 20% have been p

Industry committee  I don't know, but I'm going to ask Yves to answer that himself. It would almost be unfair to force me to answer that question, but I would say that we're not completely opposed to the idea of setting a time limit. We're ready to live with a time limit. However, Mr. Arthur, we ar

Industry committee  You'd like us to make a prediction.

Industry committee  There's no clear answer to that question. I'd say that, in the Montérégie region, for example, it would be less than a year.

Industry committee  But, Mr. Arthur, we can reverse the argument. I recognize the talented interviewer that you have always been. First, for 125 years, consumers have not received much for their money. Second, the act we're interested in was passed in 1993. Until very recently, two years ago in fact

Industry committee  I don't think the word “satisfied” is appropriate. It's not a matter of satisfaction, Mr. Arthur.

Industry committee  We've never taken a position, officially or publicly, on whether we support the idea of lifting foreign ownership restrictions. But we've said publicly several times that we don't oppose it. So I'm playing a little game here...I'm not really playing a little game. We're not for s

Industry committee  No, no, I was misunderstood. I was talking more about...

Industry committee  When you talk about broadcasters, what are you referring to?

Industry committee  The content media.

Industry committee  If I may, I'll answer first, Mr. Bélanger. Fundamentally, at Quebecor, we think that there's too much regulation and too much of it in virtually all sectors of Canadian society, that there's too much of it in broadcasting, too much of it in telecommunications as well, that there'

Industry committee  You have to be vigilant. I referred to cellular telephony...