The bill will require that people who offer the services that are called robocall services or automated calls must register with the CRTC and they must file their names. People who retain their services must also be known and the messages must be kept, under the present bill, for one year. I recommended that it should be something akin to 10 years, which is the length of time that an actual investigation and prosecution can take place. There's not much point in keeping it for one year when so many things can happen quite rapidly in one year and the time will have elapsed, so I would urge your committee to consider that.
For all those reasons it becomes a traceable item. Obviously, if someone is doing it without doing all those things, they are breaking the law, and this is where people would have to step in. I'm also recommending that the numbers that were called be kept so that the trail can be followed right to the people who received the call so that they can tell the investigators what it is they remember about that call.