Industry committee  No, on the contrary, we specifically provided not only that they have to impose the same cap but that the retail price has to be at a 15% discount so that there is room for the small ISPs. Obviously they asked for more. That's a question you may want to look at. Our whole intent

Industry committee  Not at all. It makes perfect sense. If you read page 4 of the statement I gave this afternoon, you will see that the first measure taken to deal with congestion was to broaden the network. If this measure alone is inadequate and we don't have the necessary means, we then have to

Industry committee  Not at all. I believe that it is primarily the market that encourages companies to develop. They will do the developing. They will contribute technological development and promote development in society. As you said, we now have streaming. People watch Netflix via the Internet. O

Industry committee  You made a whole bunch of statements, Mr. Garneau. Let me just set the record straight. We made this decision yesterday at around five o'clock. I was on the phone with all my fellow commissioners, and we decided, in light of the considerable concern that had arisen in light of

Industry committee  Do you mean with the tweet? I didn't follow his tweet. I read it this morning in the paper.

Industry committee  I told you that I have not had any communication with the minister of any kind.

Industry committee  Yes, the Telecommunications Act charges us to ensure that we have a healthy, vibrant communications system that serves all Canadians. We also have direction from the government, as you know, to rely on market processes as much as possible and to only intervene when there is marke

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I have copies of my opening statement, but my communications person is downstairs in the security line-up. You will have them very shortly. I apologize for that. As you know, we are in the middle of a hearing of Bell's takeover

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, I don't believe that audiences are decreasing. The audience share of TV is relatively stable, if not increasing. But let's assume, for argument's sake, that it actually happens. It's also a question of whether this is a temporary trend or a permanent trend, and th

Canadian Heritage committee  When I appeared before you about a year ago, I expressed a view on that. In fact, I said that you cannot separate telecommunications from broadcasting. If you liberalize one, you have to liberalize the other. In my opinion, it is very tricky, because we're talking about a creativ

Canadian Heritage committee  I have not changed my mind.

Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, it's not fee-for-carriage; it's value-for-signal. As you know, we have said that the broadcasters and distributors should negotiate what is the value of the signal that's being distributed. We don't see why.... The distributors pay for the specialty signal and they

Canadian Heritage committee  I was, yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know what I'm going to hear. What I've clearly observed is that the platforms are moving. Nobody knows which is going to be the dominant platform--or maybe we will have a lot of them, etc. Right now, you make a lot of money in broadcasting. Making money in the new platfor

Canadian Heritage committee  What do you mean?