Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd also like to welcome the witnesses.
My question is for Mr. Sookman. I think you are caught in the middle, so to speak. You represent the Chamber of Commerce, whose members include industries. You spoke of business to business contacts and all of the members of your association that want to send e-mails. However, at our last meeting, mention was made of a problem. The fact is that many businesses do not like to receive e-mails, even those sent by another business. Take, for example, someone who has a contract to build a 10-storey building. Suppose door and window manufacturers across Canada and the United States decide to e-mail this business and it receives about 500 e-mails in all. There is a cost to the business because someone needs to open and read all of these e-mails. Time is lost in the process.
How do your partners feel about this? In a way, they are not in a conflict of interest situation, but in another way, they are because they can no longer send out an e-mail without violating the terms of this act?