First of all, I don't think it's necessary to have more consultation. That was what the telecom policy review mandate was, to go out and consult with consumers and with affected parties and use their expertise to make a recommendation to the government, so that was done. It was done over the course of a year, and I think it was done very, very effectively.
On the issue of broadband access--in fact, Mr. Sabia, our CEO, on more than one occasion spoke to this--if you look at our submission to the telecom policy review report, we did significant work on the issue of broadband access. In fact, we recommended, and he recommended in his speech a year ago, that the government should set an objective of universal access for broadband services.
As you may know as well, we recently submitted a proposal to the CRTC to spend $455 million in rolling out broadband--some in your riding, I might add. Without doubt, it's true that when you get into the less densely populated parts of the country, the cost of providing broadband service gets higher, but we are very, very close in Canada. We already have 92% of households with wire-line access. We, with Rogers, have a joint venture called Inukshuk, where we'll be providing wireless and WiMAX-type access to a very large part of the country. Telesat, which today is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada, offers a high-speed satellite Internet service, the first in the world.
I don't think we have anything to be ashamed of in this country about how far we've gone with broadband. On the other hand, I don't disagree with you that it is vitally important that we make sure Canadians have access to broadband, and we certainly feel we have gone a long way ourselves. We have more to do, I don't deny that, but we ourselves have been very clear in this whole process that this was a fundamental part of what needed to be done.