Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. You all should have a copy of my comments and our submission. Before I get to the specifics of why I felt it important to appear before you today, I want to take the opportunity to give you a thumbnail sketch of our company, for I fear we may not be as well

Industry committee  We have three different areas we'd see.... The first is that we feel paragraph 1(a) of the suggestion should be modified along the lines of section 34 of the Telecommunications Act, which modifies it to the extent that the establishment should not “impair unduly the establishmen

Industry committee  I think it's a function of how the income trust is structured, what the payout ratios are and how much you retain for capital investment. Certainly there is a concern that the motivation is to maximize and to continue to increase payout, and over time you may find that the amou

Industry committee  Thank you very much for inviting me here today. You probably have copies of my presentation, if you want to follow along. Today, in the short time I have, I would like to impress upon you the need for a wholesale access regime and ongoing regulatory oversight to monitor and reac

Industry committee  We don't see the fines as being any detriment. The real issue is that the Competition Bureau, in our opinion, is not the right organization. The CRTC has the industry knowledge. They'll be dealing with wholesale in the future, and they'll be able to step in and order things other

Industry committee  I think we have a slightly different perspective, only for the fact that I think you can forebear for retail rate regulation and falling of tariffs in advance, but you need to establish a proper regime afterwards to monitor it. That's what I see missing from the CRTC, and there's

Industry committee  I certainly would say that the policy direction as it has now been amended we strongly support. We had a number of concerns about it originally. As Chris mentioned, through a lot of the work of this panel looking at that, I think we were successful getting it changed to something

Industry committee  Just the one I mentioned earlier. I believe there certainly is the power to forebear from falling tariffs and having an ex ante regime and moving to a ex post regime. I believe that's allowed, but you have to have that monitoring position in place. The concern I have, as mention

Industry committee  We are currently working with the staff of the CRTC to try to resolve the issues. The staff is aware of the instances we have in place, and they're going through the process.

Industry committee  Ideally, I would hope they'd be told that they can't offer it, that it's against the rules, and they would cease and desist.

Industry committee  This has been going on for maybe a couple of months, so it's reasonably quick, and I expect we'll have something resolved within the next month--it is my hope--or at least the staff will put a lot of pressure on the offending parties. So I think it's a matter of months and not a

Industry committee  We believe that the cable companies and the telcos will continue to have market appearance and market power, both individually and jointly, for the foreseeable future, because they have this national monopoly and access networks. For us, the key thing is to have a reasonable whol

Industry committee  The Competition Bureau has a very complicated two-stage process to go through. We have difficulty even getting standing in the process--it's not open. It would take years.

Industry committee  That's absolutely our concern, and why we strongly believe that the ministry that regulates the CRTC has to be the one that looks after this in the future.

Industry committee  The CRTC would like them to look out and see if the actions that are happening have the potential to impede competition.