Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's hard to believe how we got along in our economy without unsolicited email. I guess I take a different perspective. I get unsolicited advertising at my doorstep at my house. It goes in my mailbox and I can decide then to put it in the recycle bin. I suppose I've lost time doing that and I also suppose that I'm paying as a consumer and a taxpayer because I have to have that go to the landfill. A difference is that with my electronic device, as a consumer, that's a privilege that I actually can get that because I pay for the device, I pay for the constant servicing of it. Also, we can't forget the mere fact that one little unsuspicious email or unsolicited information could lead to a virus, a privacy breach. It could lead to exposure of your device now being basically a bot for spyware. It could be quite a cost for yourself and your family to recover that device. You have a whole series of things that could be affected. In fact, if you have to fix those things, it can cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.
One thing that I think has been forgotten about is the third party spammers and the firms in the industry that are related to that. Mr. Vernhout, could you maybe highlight a bit about the third party industry that's created from just basically sending people information that's unsolicited?