Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here today.
My question goes to clause 12. I guess there's some concern around the part that says “a computer system located in Canada is used to send, route or access the electronic message”. Now, “access” and “send” I can understand--that's under our jurisdiction—but “route”? That's where I start getting concerned.
If we have a company who's dealing with an American customer or a foreign customer, and we want that processing, that routing, to go through Canada...because that is jobs that are here; it's not affecting Canadians, because it's only being routed through. Are we shackling Canadian companies by forbidding them from allowing the information to be routed through and off to another country? Or are we allowing them to...?
I just feel that our companies are being restricted unfairly. If that's the case, what's to stop the companies now in Canada from saying, “You know what? This is too strict; we can route from anywhere in the world, so we're shifting our jobs and our companies south of the border or somewhere in a third world country”?