The Gazette's masthead editorial says "Maxime Bernier has his faults, but when he was industry minister he pushed hard for more competition and a better deal for consumers in telecommunications. His successor Jim Prentice seems to be moving in the opposite direction."
Montreal Gazette on the Canadian Telecom Industry
July 9, 2008
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Jim Prentice is from Calgary where just about everything has a red-hot corporate brand stamped[ed] on it.