To date we haven't tied any of the prohibitions in any of the other sections, such as part 2 of PIPEDA, or the Competition Act, to the front-end sections of ECPA, and there is a clear rationale for doing so. This limitation seems to be somewhat extreme and would limit these PIPEDA amendments solely to sending unsolicited commercial electronic messages. The idea here is to amend PIPEDA globally to update and clarify that it is an act that applies to all personal information in an electronic environment, in this case, at all times.
On October 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.