There's no attempt to fix anything within the do-not-call list in this legislation. It's merely to say that at some point in time we almost have this poison pill where we can stop the do-not-call list and replace it with the ECPA.
I would say that if the decision to stick with that approach, that almost two-track approach, is maintained, it's incumbent to address the problems that we right now have within the do-not-call list. I think it's astonishing to think that we have had what must rank as one of the largest security breaches in this country's history, when you think about six million Canadian phone numbers just out there, with people getting all sorts of phone calls, unwanted now, that they never used to get, and nothing has happened. It's astonishing when we look at the thousands of complaints that are being launched and we have had no investigations beyond complaint letters by the CRTC, when we look, frankly, at the exceptions....
I launched an access-to-information request where I literally got thousands of pages of the complaints that have been filed about the do-not-call list. I'll tell you that it's a lot of the big everyday companies. Canadians have registered their numbers and don't think they're going to get calls any more, and they continue to get calls, many of which are now still permitted under this legislation. I'm deeply worried that we're going to replicate that kind of approach in this law, where Canadians are going to have the expectation that at least legitimate marketers in Canada are going to stop, and yet there are going to be new loopholes here that are going to allow them to continue.