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Industry committee  From the Competition Bureau's perspective—and we don't see it as a significant problem at this point—we want the most effective way possible to share information with our international counterparts so that we can take action quickly. Our concern is to make sure there are appropri

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  I think I'm going to let you ask that question of Mr. von Finckenstein, perhaps, when he comes here. The reason I say that is that the way the amendments to the Competition Act work, there is no exemption for business-to-business communication. If you engage in false and mislea

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  That's exactly right.

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  We have a group of people in the bureau who look at our resourcing and make those extrapolations as to what the likely impact is going to be and what's likely required. Then there's a whole cabinet process that goes through that.

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  We did two things. First, we did a comparative study of the current legislation and the new powers we would have under Bill C-27. We also compared what is going on in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. At the end of the day, in each of those countries, the ty

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  No. They were internal studies. This is not a public study; it is not on our website.

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  Perhaps the word “study” is not the best word to use. We called our colleagues abroad and asked them what they did with respect to their legislation. We made notes, within our organization. That is how the Bureau's employees carried out the study. We did not hire anyone externall

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  Every case is going to be unique in terms of how long it's going to take. If we talk about resources, no law enforcement agency is ever going to be able to tell you that they have every resource they'd like to have, because they'd probably want to take every case forward. They d

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  In terms of spam, Canada is the only G-7 or G-8 country—depending on what number one uses—without effective spam legislation. More important, given the current economic situation, what we at the bureau notice is that there is an uptick in misleading advertising activities. For p

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  The possibility of this legislation has been a possibility for some time, so we have gone through a fairly detailed analysis of the resources we need. On your question about vulnerable Canadians, that's already a large part of our program on false and misleading advertising. Whe

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  I don't believe that an MP has ever misled anyone in his or her publications.

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  That said, what we're concerned about at the Competition Bureau is false and misleading advertisement to promote the sale of service or a product. That or charitable giving activities are not the kinds of things we're focused on when it comes to misleading advertising. Our issu

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  The AMPs that we have now are the AMPs that came about as a result of Bill C-10, the Budget Implementation Act. There was a series of changes in the act to bring administrative monetary penalties up to a level that would encourage compliance, as opposed to being a pure licence fe

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  Information that's collected specifically under the new legislation is subject to these written agreements in order to share it with international counterparts. That said, the Competition Bureau has a lengthy series of written cooperation agreements at a state-to-state level--wi

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers

Industry committee  Thank you. We have asked for additional resources. On the one hand, we'll be building on a base of expertise that we already have, but we will require some additional resources, particularly resources to acquire computer software and other technologies to assist us in tracking f

June 18th, 2009Committee meeting

Duane Schippers