I'll make this really quick.
I think it was never the intention of the legislation to not enable good business practices. I think it was never the intent to not encourage start-ups to be able to start and be successful or to be so cumbersome to small businesses that it impairs the ability to operate. I certainly think that the intent of the legislation was to deal with a real issue at hand, and indeed, it needs to continue protecting consumers and achieve that balance.
We have work to do as a committee. What would be enormously helpful is if the witnesses across the table would be able to, with that view in mind, send submissions to us because we're not going to have time to do this verbally. Maybe you can provide submissions about the solutions in addition to what you've already said, because obviously we have that. There may be practical solutions that we should be looking at that we can be focused on so we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater but really do something here as a committee to address the very bad and have the tools to do that. We could manage the way that we protect consumers without having a chilling effect on overall competitiveness, because that's not what we want.
I think that where you could be the most helpful to us—and we're going to ask this of everyone—is to give us those ideas. I think government and this committee would welcome that.