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  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  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  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  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  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