Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act  Malware includes viruses and spyware, which attack the individual user. However, some of these programs turn the user's computer into a zombie on a botnet which then can be used to attack major websites on the Internet. This is something we could not have contemplated three, four, five years ago but it is currently taking place.

Electronic Commerce Protection Act  The only other one that I would mention is botnet, because people do not necessarily know what that is. A botnet is the collection of zombie computers used to send spam or for another purpose. A zombie is a computer that runs malware so the computer can be remotely controlled by the creator, distributor or controller of the malware.

Electronic Commerce Protection Act  We know it is sometimes directed toward identify theft and other types of fraud. There are other issues that come up. The member was talking about zombie computers, where off-site computers can try to take over other people's computers, and the whole question of phishing. I wonder if the member might address a little more about how the bill tries to take on the whole issue of how spam connects with criminal activity.

Electronic Commerce Protection Act  Spam is also used in an organized way that affects the whole Internet capacity of the system. We just have to look at some of the botnets. These are zombie computers where specific programs are written to go in and then turn our computers into a generator off spam or email spam for someone else who controls a whole grid of them. I am going to wrap up by saying that I will be supporting the bill.

Electronic Commerce Protection Act  It also leads to spam borne viruses and other malicious software called malware, which are used to create networks of zombie computers known botnets without the knowledge of their owners. This undermines confidence not just that Canadians have in the Internet but that Canadian businesses have in the Internet as a platform for commerce, as a platform for doing business in the 21st century.

Electronic Commerce Protection Act  We all know that spam is an irritant but the levels of spam are infecting computers to the levels of international fraud. They use people's personal computers as zombie bots to spread further spam. We saw that in the U.S., in 2007, Robert Alan Soloway was a arrested and charged with 35 criminal counts including mail fraud, wire fraud, email fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

Electronic Commerce Protection Act  Malware includes viruses and spyware, which attack the individual user. However, some of these programs turn the user's computer into a zombie on a botnet, which then can be used to attack major websites on the Internet. This is something that we could not have contemplated three, four or five years ago, but it is currently taking place.

Health committee  I saw a movie a couple of weekends ago called 28 Weeks Later, which is a sequel to another movie called 28 Days Later, which I guess you could describe as a public health issue, where a very rapidly spreading disease caused havoc and there were zombies running around all over the place. In the movie it was interesting how very well-intentioned people just made things worse and worse and worse as it went on. I wonder, as a public health official, with the Quarantine Act and the amendments that were tabled and will be tabled after this presentation, do you feel comfortable that the government is taking all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that a 28 Days Later kind of scenario would not take place?

Budget Implementation Act, 2007  I agree with him and I agree with the Caledon Institute. The institute also refers to specifically “The “New” Child Tax Credit: a policy zombie resurrected”. It says: All non-poor families will receive $310, including the very rich; some low-income families with a low tax liability will receive a smaller amount, while the poorest will get nothing at all because they do not owe income tax.

Criminal Code  While Bill C-299 would not curb all spam, it should curb: malicious actions that cause harm to computers, networks or data, or use personal property for unauthorized purposes, for example, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, denial of service attacks, zombie networks; deceptive and fraudulent business practices, including online versions of traditional mail-based frauds, for example, the Nigerian bank account, or 419 scam, and spoofed websites masquerading as legitimate businesses; phising emails designed for identity theft or to steal money; and invasions of privacy, for example, email address harvesting, spyware.

Supply  I have a pile of paper around me because there and so many reports that put to rest that ridiculous argument, which has been called a zombie, that private health care delivers quicker, is better and is more efficient. The facts just are not there. Furthermore, it is not the best economically sound position for our government to be taking.

Health Care System  I think that in order to get there we will need an infusion of money, particularly around the accountability and information technology framework. We have excellent evidence that user fees do not work. They are like some zombie that keeps coming back like a bad video game. People just continue to want to talk about them. As a physician I found it appalling that time and time again I would have to ask people what they could or could not afford.

Health Care  The challenge is to balance fiscal responsibility with the preservation of medicare, implementing more effective alternative treatment approaches while containing costs. User fees, like a zombie, should not be resurrected. We cannot have one standard of health for the rich and another for the poor. We cannot allow the Reform Party to drive a stake through the heart of medicare.

Supply  The Reform Party is proposing a return to user fees. One very noted Canadian health care economist said that this is like a zombie, not to be resurrected again. User fees deter necessary care just as much as frivolous care. Reformers are showing signs that they have not even read the literature. I am proud to be a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, which in 1919 conceived the idea for a national medicare plan.

Criminal Code  They are children who are literally stolen from our schools and off the streets. If they ever get out of the cycle of prostitution they are like walking zombies. They have no self-worth left. They are usually addicted to drugs and alcohol. They have no life ahead of them. Their lives are destroyed; their families' lives are destroyed. However, when we deal with sentencing in the law most of these guys get off with three to six months in jail.