Industry committee  In general, what we hope will come from the ECPA is a renewed confidence in the Internet and Internet communications as a tool for communications, for marketing, for e-commerce. A lot of my ISP customers are afraid to go online and do anything. They don't want to purchase thing

Industry committee  Right. I was one of the 10 members.

Industry committee  My recollection, and this is going back a number of years now, is that we didn't discuss a review down the road. However, technology changes. It's dynamic in nature, and certainly we can't expect that, for instance, today's definitions of an illegal cyber activity not be changed

Industry committee  To some extent, yes.

Industry committee  My thinking there is that it's very practical in nature. If we have three agencies trying to enforce the same piece of legislation—albeit with different responsibilities within the legislation—we're bound to have overlap at times. I think one of the overlaps that could occur is t

Industry committee  I guess I am purely looking at it from the consumer's standpoint: Where do I start? To whom do I complain? Is it the CRTC? Is it the Privacy Commissioner? Is it the Competition Bureau? There is a forged header, they're trying to sell me bogus drugs, they have sent it en masse, th

Industry committee  Certainly, I can see the CBA's concern on that. In other jurisdictions, particularly in the United States where we have seen the private right of action used, it tends to be used when a large telecommunications provider wants to make a splash. They want to make an example of an e

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am grateful to the committee members for allowing me to address you today concerning Bill C-27. In addition to being the chair of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers for the last nine years, I have for almost 15 years been an Internet servic