There were some suggestions for minor changes, but we're not suggesting that PIPEDA be amended wholesale to deal with spam. It's not perhaps the most appropriate vehicle, but I am presuming on this committee's mandate for privacy—this is the House of Commons committee on protection of personal information—to draw to your attention an associated problem that didn't exist, and I don't think it existed really, in 2000 when PIPEDA was created. In the lives of many consumers--and I don't know about you, but we receive a lot of spam--this is a huge threat to our personal information, and it carries fraud implications.
On February 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.