The consultations we referred to concerned the possible abolition of the Do Not Call List. That exclusion list is now a reality, but it was brought in quite recently. This bill, although it does not apply to telephone communications, could conceivably be extended to all telephone communications by a simple order in council.
We feel, quite humbly, that if we wanted to go forward and abolish all of this infrastructure, given all of the technological developments that businesses have to keep up with, they should at least be consulted first so that we have some idea of the impact of the abolition of that list and of the adoption of a different system, the one set out in this bill.