Industry committee  The survey, if you look at it, breaks it down—according to my recollection—by province or by region. It doesn't break it down between rural and urban. To be honest, partly because our territory is the province of Quebec, if you will, we wanted to over-sample in the province of Qu

Industry committee  I have two or three answers to that. First of all, wireless is in most of the country and most rural areas too, and there is competition there. Telus will be offering the service in rural parts of Quebec where they're not offering wired service. We're also going to see in the fu

Industry committee  I absolutely do not believe that. As Denis said, and as I pointed out about the United States, there are no win-back restrictions there to speak of. It hasn't driven anybody out of the market there. The cable companies and others have entered the local market, and I don't believe

Industry committee  I think what's going to drive that is the economics of who can make money here. As for the cable industry, as is witnessed by my comment that in a year their market capitalization has increased to 61%, $14.4 billion, that's the market saying that these people can provide a cost-e

Industry committee  I don't have a lot of good things to say about the commission, unfortunately, because I think they have been witness to this massive wealth transfer--if not the architects of it, as I said, which I think is completely inappropriate from a public policy point of view. As you may

Industry committee  When you have proceedings in front of the commission, then there is the current legal regime, and the minister is using what he can through cabinet appeals or directives or whatever, and the commission does what it does. So that's operating within the framework. When you talk abo

Industry committee  Absolutely. In fact, I think we circulated a copy of the Ipsos Reid report to every member of the committee. But I'm certainly willing to table it with the committee formally.

Industry committee  And if you're talking about the earlier one, the Decima one in 2005, which PIAC participated in, absolutely. It's a public document. It was part of our filing to the TPR Panel.

Industry committee  That's an interesting topic. Let me tell you what Bell's position has been on this. It has been that in principle we're not opposed to changing the foreign ownership rules, but we have said that it's important for us that the regulatory system get fixed, because if you open up fo

Industry committee  I don't think it's cherry-picking, because the report said to do what you can now because legislative change is going to take a long time, and that's what the government is doing. So it's very consistent with what the report said. What I am saying, as I said before, is that doin

Industry committee  The only other jurisdiction in the world we have been able to find that has any win-back rule—The U.K. doesn't have it, Australia doesn't have it, it doesn't happen in the EU. There are now in the United States, I think, seven—We did a survey of 38 states in the United States, an

Industry committee  Right, and unfortunately you're probably not going to be as satisfied as you would like, because what I wanted to try to convey in my remarks is that we are spending a lot of effort now to figure out the offers and promotions and bundles and pricing that we will offer consumers o

Industry committee  To be honest—probably. I would worry about the practicality of how that would work, and what you would do once the horse was out of the barn. Getting it back in can sometimes be a problem. But the reason I would say yes is that I am so confident that there's going to be so much c

Industry committee  Let's give you a little history about what happened there. There were no win-backs on the cable industry at all. They, as you know, got deregulated when they lost 5% market share, which of course happened a long time ago. The basis of that was the presumption that satellite was a

Industry committee  How I'd respond to that is that the half-truths are really, really disturbing. If Mr. Engelhart said that, as he well knows, the commission has had rules in place for some time regarding the passage of information between our wholesale business and our retail business. We cannot;