Industry committee I have two briefing papers I'd like to table.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee You're right. There is the...what's the acronym I'm looking for? It's the local access. Through the back door, telecommunications can do some data mining, if you will, and look at the phraseology of people, at what they're saying, and whom they're calling, and there could be some
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee That's something, Brian, that I'm not briefed on. I would have to get back to you. But I can certainly say that on the face of it, it sounds like a two-tier medical system—jumping the queue.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee We believe there should never have been a caveat of three months before the incumbent carrier could try to win back, because the perception out there from the consumer was that they didn't care; they didn't try to get their business back. We think the incumbent carriers should be
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee No, that has not been our experience. More services are being provided because of technological advances, but it's not solely because of competition. I can tell you that in the remote areas there is less opportunity, and the services are either not available or very prohibitive i
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee Are you talking about the anti-scab legislation?
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee Actually, it's called anti-scab.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee I can tell you that the experience where we have anti-scab legislation, in Quebec and in B.C., is that we have seen fewer labour disputes, shorter labour disputes, and less violent ones.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee During the last dispute in Atlantic Canada there were hearings on essential services, and it was determined that there was enough infrastructure that when there was a dispute, people's phones still worked. There was also a provision for essential services, if it was needed, but n
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee I would agree with you that the losers are going to be Canadian citizens who don't live in the big urban centres.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee In telecommunications?
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee It's not a question of being competitive. We certainly don't have the market or the access to the numbers, so when the Americans come into Canada, they're not going to go to the Thompson, Manitobas, of the world and to small communities. But the real fear is not being able to com
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee Our experience with insurance companies has been different.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee Our members are consumers, so it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. This isn't about the union and being able to survive; this is about being able to provide good telecommunications. This is Canadians' culture. We have 33 million citizens in Canada. We are such a vast
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol
Industry committee Do you mean Bill C-257?
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Wendy Sol