Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and to each of our witnesses.
Certainly from your introduction there is a great deal of expansion available in terms of e-commerce on the part of both the consumer and the commercial organizations. We're seeing that people are reluctant, first of all, to make any payments on the Internet because they're concerned about security. They're starting off purchasing more through organizations that have bricks and mortar.
When we want to expand industry and jobs in Canada, the availability of cash to put those bricks and mortar on the ground and start a business is becoming increasingly difficult.
We have the hurdle where the consumer is reluctant to purchase from a business that they don't know really exists and the businesses that want to do commerce on the Internet don't know how to get started. Is there a designation for businesses that have demonstrated they are a legitimate e-commerce? For example, in the travel industry there is a TICO, Travel Industry Council of Ontario, designation. People know if they see the little TICO bar on there that they have some backup. Is there any designation even for Canadian companies where it's verifiable that if you do business with this company they're on the up and up?