Industry committee  No. I have not had any direct complaints. When I'm talking with small businesses, their focus is more on access to capital, access to talent, and access to markets. Those are the issues they generally speak to me about. If business owners are sophisticated enough to know about sp

Industry committee  Directly?

Industry committee  Tax is the purview of the Minister of Finance and that department, so I leave it to them.

Industry committee  On the quiz, if you've never heard of anti-spam legislation, you're a new business, and you just decide you're going to send out emails to prospective people who you think might be interested in your business, the quiz gives you a sense in simple terms of the things you need to t

Industry committee  I don't have them in front of me. We can see if we can dig them out and provide them to the committee.

Industry committee  Again, our website is a gateway to the enforcement agencies. If you're looking for enforcement information about being in compliance, or how you can best comply, that's where you want to be reaching out to the enforcement agencies to get that kind of detail. We're really a condu

Industry committee  I think it's just raising general awareness about cybersecurity and being cyber-aware as a broad issue. I'm not sure there are particular issues for us to raise more, but I think as much as we can constantly...whether it's in schools at the young ages, making children cyber-aware

Industry committee  Within the enforcement agencies around the CASL organization—you met with our policy colleagues—we have a broad communications working group at the director level that shares planning for how we're going to reach out in the communications. Some of those organizations are going to

Industry committee  Clarity is always helpful when it comes to communications. If I reflect back on some of the commentary you heard from some of the witnesses so far, I think you heard a balancing between the potential consumer impacts that CASL has had so far in terms of minimizing spam and some o

Industry committee  It's hard to say. I think it can be attributed to both. The reason the act includes a three-year statutory review requirement is precisely the rapidly changing nature of technology and the digital economy. Two elements have to be assessed: the legislation and the technology. I ca

Industry committee  That would be the folks who are doing the policy shop. I think Mark Schaan and the other group that presented earlier provided you with some materials that they've done in terms of the analysis. We have not done a specific small business analysis. Of course, all of that would hav

Industry committee  It's really interesting when you look at CASL and the framework we have with the three enforcement agencies. You met with my colleague Mark Schaan, who has the policy responsibility. Awareness-raising around cybersecurity, with CASL being a key part of being cyber-aware, is not j

Industry committee  That's where we look for partnerships with our colleagues in the Competition Bureau, and others. March is anti-fraud month, and we try to leverage the activities that they're doing to raise that awareness and spread it out as best we can. Again, it's a multi-channel effort, becau

Industry committee  Great. Thanks very much. First, Mr. Chair, thank you for inviting us to appear before the committee. As you said, my name is Chris Padfield, and I am the director general for the small business branch within the small business, tourism, and marketplace services sector at Innova

Public Accounts committee  I can't speak to ministerial decisions as to whether or not they'll move forward with a second round. That's really for ministers to consider.