Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests for being here with us today.
Two areas that concern me about this legislation are the breadth of it and some of the remedies that are being proposed. This committee has been confronted with two different models for legislation dealing with spam and spyware. On the one hand, it's argued that a feature of the legislation is its breadth. It's argued that expansive legislation is needed to protect against changing tactics used by spammers and those who would introduce malware into our computers. It's further argued that problems with overbreadth can be handled through regulation. On the other hand, we hear that the broad sweep of the legislation could be a problem, and a preferred approach is a more narrowly focused and targeted law.
Do you believe that a more targeted approach is preferable? Would that approach leave Canadians vulnerable to new techniques used by spammers and distributors of spyware? How do you achieve a balance, and how do you decide which approach to take when dealing with an issue like this?