Industry committee  In the market we're active in nationally as Allstream, which tracks back over 130 years in Canada, back to the Montreal & Toronto Electromagnetic Telegraph Company, we've been a competitor for all that time. In the small and medium-sized business market in Canada, we have one

Industry committee  I think that's an excellent point. We have a history of companies that were active beyond the borders of Canada to a far greater extent than they are now. But with the restrictions--and where you're going, to my mind, is right--once you describe the sandbox as being within Cana

Industry committee  We're a licensed carrier in the U.S., but we don't have investments outside of Canada.

Industry committee  You're exactly right. Monopoly got us so far. Competition is now getting us to a whole different stage. But to get to competition from what was a monopoly, there's a need for good regulation, as the government displayed with the wireless auction process. That was good regulation

Industry committee  I have a couple of comments. My argument would not be that there's no innovation in our telecommunications industry. There is, but it's patchy. It depends on the sector and the extent to which competition has reached the sector. Our small and medium-sized business community is

Industry committee  There are two things that appear intractable in Canada. One is opening up broadcasting. I think broadcasting in this sense.... I don't know, but I'm wondering if the government was not referring to that big-picture broadcasting by which you mean culture, which I think both Mr. He

Industry committee  In terms of the models that are put forward, there are certain other recommendations that are put forward where you might not need an amendment to the Broadcasting Act. Arguably, the recommendations in the Wilson report could be done at the first stage without opening up the Broa

Industry committee  We were maxed out as AT&T Canada when we had to choose between bankruptcy and survival. Consequently, all that foreign debt, in addition to the maximum foreign equity, was written off. We're not maxed out now because foreign investment in terms of new entry in Canada is just

Industry committee  I think the Globalive saga just demonstrates the unworkability of a qualitative test like control-in-fact. That is in addition to the concrete elements of the tests that exist today and the problem of two regulators interpreting a subjective test in succession. It's not the first

Industry committee  Okay. After FIRA was dissolved, domestic ownership went up. Today, almost 50% of the industry is owned by Canadian-based companies that can freely access global capital, and many of those Canadian companies are globally competitive. Today, most Canadians recognize that our ec

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the invitation to attend this morning. With 6,000 employees across Canada, $1.9 billion in revenues, nearly two million total customer connections spanning business customers across Canada and residential consumers throughout the province of Manitob

Industry committee  Certainly in terms of the proposed order, we would recommend that the order of forbearance needs more work. In terms of the broader issue, I'd presume that if the minister decides to table legislation, that will certainly give the committee a chance to get more broadly into the

Industry committee  Yes, in terms of the AMPs, the fines, we've communicated to the minister's office and publicly that we think the incentive to quality of service approach is going to work far better than penalties, and that you need again a more embracing amendment of the Competition Act to make

Industry committee  I could respond to that. There's a lot of talk about protecting competitors. I think people forget that an explicit goal of our regulatory framework since competition was opened up, since 1992, has been to keep the incumbents whole. So actually the policy, since competition, has

Industry committee  You should because I'll offer you better service, more choice, and competitive pricing.