Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the delegations for being here today.
Getting into this has been an interesting debate, because I think one of the things that Canadians often forget is their rights. We're the ones who purchase our computers and our electronic devices. We pay monthly fees for them. We pay to maintain them. At the same time, they have become portals for marketing and advertisement, something that is an invasion, I believe, in terms of costs that you have to incur.
I'll start with Mr. Sookman and one of the things I'm concerned about.
Maybe you could expand on this. It's the issue of implied versus express consent. Once again, I've made that investment and I basically control the machinery I'm using. It would seem to diminish my capabilities to prevent unsolicited commercial and other types of advertising if we move to implied consent, because then we've put that into a third party's hands versus our own. I don't think it's too onerous to get that express consent given the fact that you can do so through a multitude of different venues, whether it be through the Internet itself or even through direct regular mail and so forth.
Perhaps you can expand upon that and my concern about vulnerability if we take that away.