Industry committee  I concur with my colleagues.

Industry committee  I'd go along the same lines. Essentially we have supported the minister quite strongly. We were asked to make some recommendations as to how we should proceed so that it would be done in an orderly fashion. We made some recommendations, but overall it hasn't changed the basis of

Industry committee  It is certainly not something our company is contemplating at the moment, no.

Industry committee  You're not talking about speed.

Industry committee  I understand, but you're not including the speed of—

Industry committee  No, we're not contemplating anything like that at the moment.

Industry committee  Can I go first, or do you want to go first? We're not defying the law at the moment. The law is very clear, and the official spokesperson for the CRTC was very clear when he spoke about it. Until the end of the broadcast season, which is August 31, what we're doing is not illega

Industry committee  We're going to go up to August 31, and we're going to see how we can improve things.

Industry committee  I think that indeed time is of the essence. The market is moving at an incredible pace. The digital revolution is something that is completely changing the way telecommunications work all over the world, as we speak. It changes the time span we can apply to different decisions of

Industry committee  This is a debate about values.

Industry committee  And politics, I would agree.

Industry committee  Or even if the minister should wait for the results. You have been elected and elected representatives are sovereign in this country. They are the ones who govern and I think that it is up to them to make this decision. Our position with respect to this issue has not changed. We

Industry committee  If I may, Mr. Crête, I would like to speak first. I do not feel that I am in any position to determine whether or not the committee should undertake a study. You are the parliamentarians—

Industry committee  Obviously I am not going to be the one to say it. He did act in an unusual fashion, in that what he did is rarely done, but we can also see it as a sign of courage.

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I will be very brief and I will not repeat what we said publicly when the minister announced his decision last fall. Vidéotron and its parent company, Quebecor, are basically in agreement with the approach advocated by the minister, mainly an