That's for sure.
Certainly, the situation you describe is a very common one that municipalities experience, in that everyone wants services, but very few people want to host the potentially negative impacts of delivering that service locally. Sometimes it's called NIMBYism—not in my backyard—and that certainly applies to the installation of some forms of ITC infrastructure, particularly antenna towers.
The intent of that protocol is actually to first inform and really empower citizens to know about how new infrastructure development might impact their property or their community. The long experience of municipalities shows it's always better to ensure that the community is aware of what's happening and how it's going to change the community. The consultations, if there are going to be consultations, can occur without the suspicions and innuendo and, frankly, I think as you mentioned, false facts and the rest.
What this protocol really is meant to do is, frankly, require industry, in all cases, to work with municipalities through the normal community consultation processes that municipalities apply to all sorts of services that might get the kind of response that you're describing, so that they can manage it the way they do everything else. It's not just federally regulated activities that get this kind of attention; most municipal services do as well.
The intent is simply to require telecommunications providers to use exactly the same consultation processes that municipalities use to successfully manage this kind of thing in a wide range of other issues. Of course, as I hope the committee knows, the existing policies allowed for an exemption of antenna towers of under 15 metres from any form of public consultation or notice, which I think in the minds of our members seemed both unreasonable and also ineffective. Again, it gets rumours going; there's disinformation and the rest.
So we're very pleased to work with the wireless and telegraph association to come to a voluntary agreement to improve the level of consultation in that area.