Industry committee  I understand the question to be, does the low population density affect the price we pay? No. The lack of competition affects the price that we pay in Canada. The rates that members of this association we represent charge for home Internet are 5% to 35% lower, and if you open tha

Industry committee  If I may, I'll go first. It's a very important issue, obviously. It's something our members support. Let me just say that competitors are not just competing on price. There are non-price factors that they compete on as well. Some of our members, for example, respond to the langu

Industry committee  I feel like we need a CrossFit clock here, so I can watch the time count down. Mr. Lemire, the fourth player model is clearly broken. We need a full, open, wholesale access model. The CRTC currently has the tools for it. Mr. Jowhari, you asked where we should look for this. Yo

Industry committee  The problems of high prices, lack of competition and even how to better serve Mayor Wood's constituents are really solved by service-based competition. It's the reason we have competition. We had it for long distance; we had it for home phone. We had, for a period of years, a wor

Industry committee  I will say it: Yes. Yes, hold [Technical difficulty—Editor]

Industry committee  This is a great discussion. I think it's important that you hear from the small competitors who are here and are willing to serve Canadians. With respect, certainly there's a competition issue here, and certainly this has to go through the bureau for approval. Certainly there's

Industry committee  All right. I'm happy to talk about the population density argument, and all of these arguments, and explain why they're distractions from the main issue of the day, the main issue that should be before this committee and the main issue you should be focusing on when you speak to

Industry committee  It's because there's a fundamental lack of competition. The big three wireless carriers compete upwards. They don't compete downwards on price. It's innovators like the members of CNOC and EBOX that compete.

Industry committee  Mr. Lemire, if I could...?

Industry committee  Mr. Béïque's company is a member of CNOC, so could I just add to that?

Industry committee  That 5G isn't going to help Mayor Wood and his constituents. The real discussion right now is 4G and Internet to the home. I mean, we can't seem to get that right despite the regulator having all the tools it needs to make that happen, and we're talking about 5G. That 5G isn't

Industry committee  There seems to be a lot of focus at this committee on what tools we have and what measures could be imposed. Let's be clear: The Competition Bureau has all the remedies it has and needs to deliver the right outcome for Canadians here; so does the CRTC. The CRTC doesn't need new t

Industry committee  The biggest tool in the government's [Technical difficulty—Editor] with the CRTC at the moment in terms of opening up access to the airwaves of Rogers and Shaw to bring more competition to consumers. That's the quickest and easiest solution if this merger goes ahead, but I think

Industry committee  The regulators aren't sharing their timelines on these and I think we should not be in a hurry to approve this deal. The first thing we would like to see, as service-based competitors, is for the CRTC to come out with a decision on mobile virtual network operators, because that's

Industry committee  One of the ways forward would be for the commission to actually enforce its decisions and its regulatory requirements. The commission has numerous powers under the Telecommunications Act already and it has the power to impose administrative monetary penalties. It appears, thoug