Welcome, Mr. Rajotte. Sponsoring a private member's bill is always an important part of our work as a member. Moreover, as I've had occasion to tell my party, I hope we set aside more hours for private members' business, because I believe it's important.
Your bill poses a problem for me. I understand its intent, but I find it hard to understand how you are going to define, for example, personal information. That expression is already defined in another act. Consequently, I think that can be fine for this definition. However, the specific types of offences that you want to create and for which you would like people to be prosecuted aren't clear in my mind.
I'd like you to give us some very specific examples on the subject. We have some fear about the entire matter of telemarketing. Some companies exercise a form of solicitation that is increasingly common in our consumer world, with all the advantages and disadvantages that that entails. I agree that it's not always pleasant to be solicited.
Some private companies use information brokers to conduct telephone solicitations and buy data bases. Explain to us how marketing works and how information is transmitted in that context, and, more specifically, what type of behaviour you want to criminalize.