You were here earlier when the business representatives testified. There is a question I am dying to ask. I heard them ask their questions and say that, in order to send out emails, there had to be a pre-existing business relationship or they had to have already obtained consent, otherwise there could be no communications or emails sent out. Under the bill as it is drafted, businesses cannot do anything.
How can they operate with this chain around their necks while we open the door to foreign companies to do business here? We are telling our businesses not to send anymore emails here, not to do any more marketing or things of that nature, but we are allowing people in other countries to do it in their place.
To come back to what you were saying, Mr. Alexander-Cook, what do we do about that foreign shampoo company that wants to save the planet and sends its products here and that is allowed to market them here because, as a foreign company, it is not subject to the bill? We let it happen? I am not saying that we should leave the door wide open, but I think we need to find a compromise so that everyone can do something. How can we also give our businesses a chance to operate normally in terms of email?