Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to say again that I understand that the Member believes that we did not consult enough or take enough time to do it. I have been working on this issue for almost two years, right from day one this was a file on my desk. We have given over one year for detailed consultations, and it will never be enough, I think we could consult forever and we will never get consensus. We will never make everybody happy, but what we can do, what I am going to do is to meet with the people personally who are concerned and try to deal with them. I will go to their communities, I will talk to them face to face, and I will try to deal with their concerns. Then again, I know that I cannot make everybody happy, but at some point in time we have to make a decision. We can consult forever but I think we talked again in the beginning about making difficult choices, difficult decisions and we have done that in terms of what we had to do with the budget, with layoffs and so on and I see that as an extension of carrying out our responsibility. The NTCL press release, I do not have a lot to offer as
comment on that other than, as far as I am concerned, there was no proposal to reduce costs, et cetera.
I think what happened more or less, is after we had made the decision to open the field, make it possible for competition to come in, or for them to put together a competitive proposal which they do not now, although the service may be good now, it is not a competitive process. It is in essence, sole sourced or negotiated contract that we have with them that was supposed to end in 1993. We made the decision to end four years later than we said we would. We made that decision some months ago, and then it was after the fact that the company came forward and said we would like you to reconsider keeping the carrier of choice and this is a way we could reduce costs. It is after the fact. It is after we said we would level the playing field. You have company good intentions, good people and so forth, but after the fact coming over and saying, let us try to make up let us try to keep it the way it is. It was too late, the decision had been made.