Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. von Finckenstein, and your organization. Indeed, the amendment that you tabled does in fact reflect one of my concerns. I know that this bill is not 100% perfect. Indeed, other witnesses have told us that there are often affiliated programs, that it was possible to obtain lists, in particular, and to go through countries that were not covered by this type of legislation. The problem is that an organization here can forward information to other countries, as is done in the case of the Indian telephone system. These people could therefore go through another country in order to spread advertising.
You said that these products could be delivered to Canada by a foreign company responsible for the distribution and advertising from Canada. With this amendment, in North America, we are going to cover all of that. Of course, it would have been preferable to have had an international agreement, but this is a good start.
I would now like to refer you to clauses 6(4)(a) and 6(4)(b) of the bill, which read as follows:
(a) an electronic message is considered to have been sent once its transmission has been initiated; and (b) it is immaterial whether the electronic address to which an electronic message is sent exists or whether an electronic message reaches its intended destination.
Going back to the scenario given by Mr. Wallace, let's suppose that I have my own home business and that my son uses the electronic address list found in my computer in order to sell chocolate for his school. What would happen? From what I can gather, I would be responsible for my computer and individuals under the law. Would there be any repercussions?