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Martine Dagenais
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Martine Dagenais
2014-11-18 10:04
Thank you, Roger.
Good morning, Mr. Chair.
As my colleague Roger has mentioned, the Competition Bureau has a role in informing regulators and policy-makers on competition matters, and we take this role seriously. In the past two years, the Bureau has made submissions to the CRTC in connection with its wireless code of conduct, as well as its reviews of broadcasting and television services, wireless roaming rates, and wholesale mobile wireless services, among others. These are important sectors of the economy, and a focus of the Bureau's competition promotion efforts to bring about more choices, lower prices and higher quality goods and services for consumers.
Accordingly, the Bureau is pleased by the amendments to the Telecommunications Act proposed in Bill C-43 that would allow the CRTC to share confidential information with the Bureau when that information is relevant to competition issues that the CRTC is considering. The amendments will bring the Telecommunications Act into line with federal legislation that regulates other industries, such as legislation governing matters before the Canadian Transportation Agency or the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
This information sharing would enhance the Bureau's ability to analyze telecommunication markets and result in more substantive submissions to the CRTC on competition matters. The CRTC would therefore be able to make more informed decisions in telecommunication proceedings on issues relating to competition.
The Bureau understands the importance of competition in the telecommunications market to consumers, and it will continue to advocate in this area for the benefit of all Canadians. We believe the amendments proposed in Bill C-43 will further the objectives of both the CRTC and the Bureau with respect to this important sector of the economy.
Thank you again for inviting us today. We will be happy to answer your questions.
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I'm going to call to order meeting number 44 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
The orders of today are, as per the order of reference of Monday, June 16, 2014, Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code in response to the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Attorney General of Canada v. Bedford and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
We are being covered by, I believe, CBC and Sun TV. All cameras are fixed. The one behind us is the camera that will be used. It will be fixed only on those who are speaking and is not to be used to pan the room.
We are joined by witnesses from the Department of Justice, in case there are any questions about the clauses or amendments that may be brought forward.
Madame Boivin, you have your hand up before we start the clause-by-clause consideration.
Ihor Okhrimtchouk
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Ihor Okhrimtchouk
2014-03-03 17:18
Right now it's overwhelming fear.
Number one, there is an information vacuum in Ukraine. Mr. Czolij was talking about where else Canada can help. Hopefully the situation will be resolved quickly, or at least painlessly, for all sides without the sacrifice of human life. But really, when you think about it, one thing would be to help coordinate and create a country-wide television network that would be able to give out signals on what the parliament was doing, and so on and so forth. Hopefully it would be a transparent one.
That's one thing. What else are people facing? I think fear is one of those things that are probably the best in determining...in that, with fear, people are determined to defend themselves. We see it in the eastern regions. My cousin lives actually in Donetsk, where you would say it's very pro-Russian. His wife is Russian. They're both saying, “This is our land. We don't want to go anywhere. We don't feel threatened. We had a small business. We were doing okay. Why are we pushed to believe that we are persecuted?” It's stuff like that.
So there is hope, and also if the attack is to occur, I do believe there will be as large a fury as there will be large human losses.
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