Industry committee  I know, and we appreciate your support.

Industry committee  Well, the new entrant in that statement would be someone who hasn't competed in telecommunications. An example of that would be Call-Net getting into the telecom business or what not. These tend to be relatively new players in the marketplace, so there doesn't seem to be a partic

Industry committee  Yes, one of our enforcement priorities and advocacy priorities at the bureau is with respect to health. We think that's an extremely important sector of the economy for Canadians. We have taken a number of our enforcement responsibilities and advocacy responsibilities and given t

Industry committee  Let me come back to that question, because there are different parts of our jurisdiction that will be engaged by telecommunications deregulation. I was talking to you about the consumer complaints we get about false and misleading advertising. That tends to be most of our consume

Industry committee  Let me just say a few words about that, and you can tell me if it's sufficient, or if you'd like to hear from Richard. With respect to our resources in particular, you're right, over the years we've had this constant challenge of attempting to have an adjustment to our base so t

Industry committee  The budgetary process is quite a long process. And it's not for want of trying, it's just that it's a long process to get into that budget cycle.

Industry committee  Well, in many cases you will have additional obligations that remain on the company being deregulated. Our advice has always been that one should very carefully look at the objective the regulator is pursuing, have the least interventionist restriction in the marketplace, and mov

Industry committee  Do you mean with respect to a type of complaint of abuse of dominance?

Industry committee  This would assume that there is forbearance and that these companies are now subject to our jurisdiction and not the CRTC. It would again depend on the resources we have at that particular time, but Richard has made a priority of getting ready and prepared for the telecommunicati

Industry committee  I think you're straying a bit from our area of expertise. I suspect the telecommunications experts might be better placed to talk to you about that. Our view is that our test has six elements that relate more to rivalry, cost structures, and what not. We didn't see that it was

Industry committee  It's a reasonable observation that they've made. We've actually given it a fair amount of thought. I would say our thinking evolved over time, if you look at our various public positionings on this. We were relatively cautious. We hadn't decided or determined our view on this y

Industry committee  No, I wouldn't. We've just introduced an incredibly interesting triage tool that is quite proactive, and we're doing a systematic analysis. We get over 15,000 complaints, I think, from consumers, something like that. We decided that we probably don't want to be held captive to co

Industry committee  No. It recommended that power be given to the CRTC for work that remains subject to CRTC powers—

Industry committee  From our perspective, I would say it's an essential tool for us to have as we look at abuse of dominance in general.

Industry committee  —and that we be allowed to impose pecuniary sanctions when it is deregulated. From what we can see, Bill C-41 is supposed to follow deregulation. So it is indeed in keeping with the report. There were no sanctions for the CRTC, but this was limited to the regulatory period. So