Industry committee  A political party sends an e-mail to its members to organize a fund-raiser for the party. The idea is to organize a dinner—

Industry committee  That's correct. It's precisely for that reason that this is taken into account in subclause 10(6) of the bill, which concerns non-business relationships involving charities, political parties or religious groups.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Not necessarily. Any person, in legal terms, can institute a civil suit. It could be a person, but also a business, like Videotron, for example, which would sue those who do not comply with the new act.

Industry committee  No, the purpose of the bill is to protect networks as much as consumers, as well as small and medium-size businesses.

Industry committee  We're talking about, for example, about Bell, Videotron or any company that has a network. The network has a certain bandwidth. As Mr. Chong said, spam currently represents 90% of all traffic on those networks. So that's very costly for Videotron, Bell and Rogers. That spam is tr

Industry committee  Well, it also affects your Hotmail account. Nowhere in the legislation does it say where your account is set up; it's whether or not you're accessing your e-mail in Canada. The jurisdictional link is that it's sent to you, and if it's the case that you're in Canada, then that's o

Industry committee  Yes. We're still quite confident that what we have here is the right piece of legislation. The amendments that were brought forward are meant to address legitimate concerns brought forward by witnesses over the course of the committee hearings, but we still feel very comfortabl

Industry committee  That was the concern with the third party referral. To be completely honest, I didn't feel 100% comfortable with doing it, but that was my personal view. Understanding that it is a legitimate practice for a number of legitimate commercial entities out there, we did feel compelled

Industry committee  That's not necessarily the case. I can create a website and enter into partnerships with other websites. I can also put advertising on other websites to refer people to my website, if there's no indication that should stop. Ultimately, the purpose of this bill is to promote that

Industry committee  As in any other act, there are jurisdictional problems. As described in the bill, the spam has to be sent to Canada.

Industry committee  That depends. If Romania has a similar act, the three agencies can coordinate an investigation with Romanian authorities.

Industry committee  In that case, it is the consumer who is responsible for telling the company, for example, that he no longer wants to receive electronic business messages from it. If you have express consent, there are no limits. So if I give my real estate agent that consent and he contacts me

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  No, nothing here prevents those companies from having a website.