Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
I'm interested in some of the terminology that's been used here. I hear a lot about “legitimate businesses”, but really no definition has been given for that. I'd like to hear a little bit about that.
Also, the 17 bad guys—apparently there are only 17 bad guys out there.
Back at the last meeting, I talked about my days in the mid to late 1990s working at the Edmonton Oilers hockey club and having an e-mail address that I had to actually change eventually because I got so much junk. I tell you, that junk wasn't coming from these 17 bad guys you're talking about. It was junk. It was simply virtual junk that clogged up my e-mail so badly that I actually couldn't function properly using the e-mail system I had. I don't believe most of it was fraudulent e-mail; it was just pure junk. We had to hire an extra person to deal with it, we had to install software to deal with it, it took up tons of our computer space, and it eventually caused me to change my e-mail address.
I'm finding it interesting to hear—and I may be wrong, Mr. Sookman—but it sounds like you're defining that as legitimate business.
And Ms. Morin, although I see you shaking your head, it sounds like that's something you wouldn't want to see covered under this legislation. I just want to get some clarification, maybe first from you, Ms. Morin. Do you not see that as a problem? Should we be addressing that through this type of legislation?