Hon Chair, I just want to repeat and underscore the point I made earlier. The Minister wilfully misrepresented the argument that we are making, because it suits his own political purpose and the purpose of his party.
We are not arguing, nor have we ever argued, that the private sector should be able to price uncompetitively and illegally. If the government has any evidence of that, or if any person has any evidence of that, we have a Competition Commission and a Competition Tribunal, and those companies should be made to face the full force of the law, just as the government has done with certain companies, and they have won. We have absolutely no objection to that. Interjections.]