Industry committee  Certainly I think the issue of an e-mail to obtain consent is a prime example. You would need a legislative amendment, because you have the blanket prohibition in the legislation right now. But if you took that blanket prohibition out and then you developed a definition of an e-m

Industry committee  There are two points. First, that's theoretically possible, but it's highly unlikely because it's inefficient and the industry does not generally work on that sort of cold-calling model. Secondly, as I mentioned earlier, that's not the problem; the problem is what's in the e-mail

Industry committee  I'm not sure how much use would be served by prescribing that you identify the person who made the referral. As a matter of fact--

Industry committee  Yes, I would say that's what you're hearing. I think it's also important that what you're hearing from all of us is that this isn't really addressing the problems.There was a suggestion or a question, I guess, about how to define mass mailing. How many are too many? I don't thi

Industry committee  I'll echo Mr. Vaillancourt's comments that the impact of this bill, as it is currently drafted, would be to send us back to the marketing techniques of the last generation. Arguably, you might think that the Rotary Club is a good thing and that we should be having more face-to-fa

Industry committee  Thank you, Frank. Mr. Chair, the stated purpose of the bill is to regulate the commercial conduct that discourages the use of electronic means to carry out commercial activities. Everyone, I think, agrees that this is an important objective, so it is equally important that we av