Industry committee  I'll defer to Ms. Sonley with regard to whether we've had any public positions on this. Looking at merger transactions or at the conduct of existing competitors is our bread and butter, so the facts on the ground in a particular area that are relevant to the review of any merge

Industry committee  We thought it was going to have a detrimental impact on the prices that consumers pay in British Columbia. That was part of our case. There were a range of price effects that we put forward for the offerings from Shaw, and in particular Shaw Mobile. What we saw happen in the ma

Industry committee  I wish I could be more helpful. I don't have a definitive answer to that, because we based our case on the data that was before us pre-merger and during the period of investigation. I do not have an update as to what the price effects have significantly been in any particular mar

Industry committee  What I can say is that we have no information to say that Rogers is continuing to offer those same promotions that were available under Shaw.

Industry committee  I can speak generally. Ms. Sonley can probably speak in much more detail about what our submissions were to the CRTC. We have a relatively stable oligopolistic market structure in Canada in the telecommunications sector. Our observations are that when a fourth player is able to

Industry committee  It is important to us that competition ensure the lowest prices. They don't really have there what they have in Quebec to be able to compete as vigorously as they do in Quebec. They don't own the infrastructure and they have to rely on a competitor for it.

Industry committee  As an organization, we actually want all consumers to see what benefits switching can give them. We've had promotions in which we actually promoted “switch week”. We have seen in particular sectors, including telecommunications, that being your own champion and seeing what deal y

Industry committee  Yes, it was.

Industry committee  That has been our finding and that's been our observation in addition to this one. It's an intervention that we did several years ago that showed that where we have a strong fourth player, prices in those regions tend to be lower.

Industry committee  I'm not sure. Ms. Sonley, do you have a range?

Industry committee  I think I'll defer to Ms. Sonley or Mr. Durocher on whether or not we've actually measured that. My recollection is that you want to be going toward a 10% market share to really see that disruption.

Industry committee  Maybe I'll start and talk from the mergers perspective. I'm going to defer to my colleague to talk about the larger changes in the acts. We are incredibly welcoming of the changes in Bill C-56 and Bill C-59. I do think that these are the first significant changes to our act sin

Industry committee  Maybe I'll speak on this. The tribunal did not make any order, so with regard to any of the representations made by representatives and witnesses, there's no order to hold them to those representations. What I can say is that structural presumptions in particular may have chang

Industry committee  Yes, it's a reverse onus, which still leaves the door open. If they can demonstrate it is pro-competitive, that would still be there. The other addition is the remedy standards. Here we advocated that the remedy of the divestiture of Freedom did not go far enough. The restore st

Industry committee  I can't say definitively where prices are, because it is a complex question. What I can say is that we are concerned about the trajectory. We didn't have a problem with Vidéotron as a buyer of Freedom. Vidéotron has demonstrated that it can be a vigorous and effective competito