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  We don't set caps. We don't set any caps whatsoever. The wholesalers picked this cap for themselves. Those are the caps they apply to their own users.

Industry committee  We say you have to treat your wholesale customers like you treat yourselves. That's the basic principle. They impose a cap on their users. If you are a Bell customer user, you are subject to a cap right now. We said that if you resell, don't make it any harsher; it has to be equi

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  This order in council asks the CRTC not to intervene unless there is a market failure. Our entire policy is aimed at keeping the small ISPs in the market and in faciliting wholesale Internet access for ISPs so that there will be some competition. I believe that these measures ful

Industry committee  You should ask him the question. I am not speaking on behalf of the minister.

Industry committee  No. The large corporations do send submissions to us but we are the ones who decide. We have taken many decisions that the large corporations do not like at all. For example, we insisted that the big suppliers provide their services to small providers at the same speed they provi

Industry committee  First of all, I did not agree with the government. We did it on our own. It was absolutely clear; it was our decision to do this. Second, I cannot tell you what the outcome of the review is, but as I've said many times, I believe the ISPs are vital to having a competitive marke

Industry committee  TekSavvy and some of its colleagues appeared before the commission about two weeks ago and made representations on our latest ruling. They said basically they liked the ruling, but they thought we went too far, and rather than averaging, we would make them impose it on individual

Industry committee  My job is all about that. It's all about balance between competing interests, between large providers and small providers, between providers and consumers, etc. That's what we do, and the way we do it is we have a hearing and we ask everybody to come forward with their best ideas

Industry committee  As I said, we will issue a notice saying we are redoing this, please comment, etc. This is the principle I just enunciated here: the ordinary user should not subsidize the heavy users. You know what we did. Does this make sense? Do you have a better mousetrap? Where do you think

Industry committee  First of all, there has been no overturn here. Let me explain to you how it works. If we make a decision and you as a party are dissatisfied with the decision, you appeal to the minister, who then asks for submissions from other parties and then takes this decision to the cabine

Industry committee  The telecom act speaks in terms of broad principles and objectives. It leaves it up to the CRTC to put those into reality and make them work. It also gives the government--to give us direction or guidance. This is what they used. They said they wanted us to interpret these broad