Madam Speaker, the bill actually gives the agencies power to deal with information with the international counterparts, as the member has mentioned, of the G8 countries. Canada is the only one without such legislation.
When the legislation is in place it will give the power for co-operation with the other countries involved with this type of legislation.
However, I go back to my original point on the last question about the fact that there are no criminal offences under the bill. The penalty is just a fine.
We have already seen an example where Facebook spent a lot of money getting a judgment against a spammer for, I believe it was, $1 billion. The spammer declared bankruptcy and that was the end of the case.
If there were to be some criminal offences in the bill I would think a spammer might think twice about spamming if the spammer was going to be spending some time in jail as opposed to receiving a fine and the spammer simply declares bankruptcy.
There has been absolutely no effect so far in stopping these people because they simply declare bankruptcy whenever they get caught.
Does the member have any observations about whether criminal offences might have been a positive addition to the bill?