It’s important to be careful not to put in place universal regulations.
I’ll give you an example of what we see often. Right now, Quebec applies Bill 25 on privacy. It is well intended, but small businesses don’t know where to start with the bill. They don’t know what they can put on their website or who is responsible for collecting personal information. On the other hand, large businesses like Loto-Québec have legal teams and can apply the law. They also don’t use personal information in the same way as a small inn in Magog, which has a basic website for online reservations.
It’s important to see the basis for determining whether the regulations would apply to large companies or to SMEs with fewer than 100 employees, for example. Would the number of employees or the business turnover be taken into consideration? That’s where multi-level regulations would be worth considering. That’s what I meant.