Thank you, everybody, for coming today and to your staff who are here for helping to prepare for today. I know it's a lot of work.
I want to just clarify a few things. We had before us some presentations from a number of individuals in the lead-up and preparation for this. I will read you just a couple here.
From the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Scott Smith indicated in his presentation that “...in 2008 92.6% of global email traffic was spam. By 2015 that number had declined to 54%.”
We had another presentation from Mr. Lawford from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. He said that, “One report from...2015 found outgoing spam volumes from Canada dropped 37% and overall email volume—spam and legitimate email—received by Canadians also dropped about 30% in the period immediately after CASL came into full force on July 1, 2014.”
A number of you said that it hasn't had any effect on this issue. Can you point us to any reports or statistics that show that?