Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I believe you've been given some speaking notes from me that set out the substantive and technical objections we have to a proposed direction. I don't propose to read those speaking notes. They're too long to meet the minutes. I'm going to try t

Industry committee  I've just got about thirty seconds more. Our wireless lags in penetration and customer discounts. Our broadband is effectively a duopoly with the resultant price parallelism and slowing penetration levels. Why all this attention to the remaining regulatory services, which are de

Industry committee  The majority of Canadians in our survey, which was done in September 2006, did not believe, essentially, in the premise of the CRTC test--which the incumbent telephone companies think is far too restrictive--which is that having one competitor, a cable provider, is sufficient com

Industry committee  I think the policy directive is a rather awkward instrument to try to effect change in the Telecommunications Act. It's a bit like attempting to thread a needle with boxing gloves on. The kind of thing you're looking at doing is to orient the Telecommunications Act. If you wish t

Industry committee  Our organization represents other consumer groups--for example, the Consumers' Association of Canada, the National Anti-Poverty Organization, Regulatory Proceedings--and have done so for the last thirty years. There's one point...I wonder if you're clear in your mind that...and

Industry committee  Well, I've just told you.

Industry committee  Not me personally, but certainly the organization has.

Industry committee  I didn't compare Maxime Bernier and Mao Tse-tung; I compared the language that was used to effective language that was used in the context of other, less attractive regimes.

Industry committee  Do you mean these comments today? I wrote this today, sir, because effectively I've been in CRTC proceedings up until yesterday, and this is the only time we've had to compile comments for your benefit.

Industry committee  I consulted myself, yes.

Industry committee  Essentially, one becomes an expert in telecom by effectively being involved in telecom proceedings over a period of time.

Industry committee  I'm not certain what the use of an income trust is, specific to actual deregulation. As a matter of fact, this week, in the price cap proceedings, we visited this issue for both TELUS and Bell Canada, and it seems clear that the income trust instrument is capable of being used by

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, for extending this invitation to address you on matters of concern to residential consumers, particularly vulnerable consumers, associated with the deregulatory actions of the government in relation to the CRTC in particular a

Industry committee  As the committee well knows, the provisions associated with abuse of dominance and predatory pricing have not had extensive use in Canada. There has been a great deal of reluctance on the part of the Competition Bureau to find conduct that would amount to abuse of dominant positi

Industry committee  This matter of an attempt to define LFRs was a matter that occupied a considerable amount of time and head-scratching in the original proceeding. It's frankly not so much a matter of science, but belief, in terms of how this thing should be crafted. There are opinions on both sid