Mr. Chairman, the proposed legislation creates new obligations that did not exist before. The important obligations that are new and would serve to address some of the problems that occurred with Pierre Poutine would be the requirement that the group or party or person seeking the services of a calling service provider would have to provide them with identification. The identification would have to be identification that's authorized by the CRTC. That would be one of our new responsibilities to determine what is adequate identification.
At the same time, the obligation is reciprocal on the calling service provider to obtain that information. The bill also has provisions in it which require that any agreement entered into has to be entered into with a calling service provider by an authorized representative, an official agent, a chief financial officer. Those are very important provisions that we think will assist us in ensuring that these types of calls don't occur again.
The extent of the responsibilities for the CRTC is to ensure that the identification is authorized. Then the obligation falls on the calling service provider and the person who's seeking those voter contact services to file registration notices with the CRTC within 48 hours of a call being made. Those notices would contain the names of the person entering into an agreement, the name of the calling service provider, and also the type of call that will be made.