I believe protection is built into the law about the private right of action. For example, there's the CRTC, the Privacy Commissioner, and the competition branch's ability to override an individual lawsuit. The laws in Canada are fundamentally different in this regard from the United States. Some of the abuses that we have seen in the States—and indeed they have been abuses—are not likely to be an issue here. It gives individuals a chance to deal with things that the CRTC, the Privacy Commissioner, and the competition branch may not be able to tackle because it doesn't meet the statutory requirements for the number of complaints or the number of people being attacked, and so on. The situation I was referring to in a nutshell was he could do something about it in law, but it would cost him $10,000 to get a lawyer to be interested.
On November 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.