Industry committee  That's when it came out. After we make the decision, it has to be written up. It has to be translated in both languages and then published. I wish I could put them out as quickly as we make them. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The actual date was maybe six months or four m

Industry committee  You keep saying “accept the caps”. This is a cap that Bell imposes on its own residential users. Bell's residential users—I don't know what the numbers are but it's in the millions. They've just said that when they resell, they want to impose that same cap on the people who take

Industry committee  Health care is not residential; it's done by professionals. This decision will not have any effect on it. We have had hearings on what you call obligation to serve and, in effect, on Internet access and what should be the minimum that people are furnished with. We went to Timmin

Industry committee  Lynne, maybe you can give some details, but the usage of Skype is not going to cause you any problem with 20 gigabytes to access it. The cap comes in when you have heavy video or play three-dimensional games, or something like that. If you use it for Skyping, you will not use any

Industry committee  The system is very simple. You have two acts on broadcasting. The CRTC Act establishes broad objectives and then basically says “Leave it to the CRTC to fill out within this frame the detailed rules on everything.” Then it provides for two government checks, if you so want to cal

Industry committee  No, really I have not. I just want to thank you for interest in this matter. I can only say that we didn't take this decision lightly in the first place, as I pointed out to Mr. Lake. It took us three rounds to get what we thought was the right decision. We may not have got the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to introduce my colleagues from the CRTC. Christianne Laizner is General Counsel, Telecommunications, and Graham Sheppard is the Senior Annual Returns Auditor. I understand that you have asked me to appear so that I can discuss the CRTC's admini

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  Who knows, I may appear before you advocating another interest some time in the future.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you talking about private broadcasters?

Information & Ethics committee  The act makes it quite clear that where you have information belonging to third parties and they've claimed confidentiality, you have to respect that. For instance, as I explained, private broadcasters file all sorts of information with us, and they claim that the release of it w

Information & Ethics committee  It was the decision of the third party, who owns that information.

Information & Ethics committee  Right. If you as a requester disagree with my decision not to divulge, it's your right to go to the Federal Court and say we should divulge. At that point, I would say to the court, “Here is the information. It's under seal. I have no interest in this fight, but the private comp

Information & Ethics committee  Let's take it one by one. First of all, we're not talking about taxpayers; we're talking about subscribers. The money from the LPIF comes from cable and satellite subscribers. It's a percentage of the gross revenue made by cable companies and television companies.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, if you want to.... Obviously, there are taxpayers--