Industry committee  To answer your first question, essentially 25% to 30% of my new business every year comes from people I did not know on January 1. All of my new clients come from referrals. I've been in business for twenty years, and I've built the business where I look after my clients to the

Industry committee  Yes. Essentially, we're in sales, so we're adaptive and we're creative. There's no doubt about it. The question becomes why we should need to become creative when we have a solution here, e-mail, which is rather useful. Just looking around the table, I see half of you looking d

Industry committee  For my very limited use of Internet, I'm one business owner and I'm not spamming a whole bunch of people. I'm simply trying to get a communication going with somebody who was referred to me. The way this legislation is set up right now, it would be illegal for me to have my clien

Industry committee  No doubt, and if the legislation is passed the way it is, I'll have to say to my client, “Wonderful, I would love to get in touch with your brother. Have him e-mail me.” That's a delightful way of doing business if he gets to me, but I have to convince my client to sell me to his

Industry committee  I might not be able to help you with the wording of legislation. I'm just a financial planner, not a lawyer. However, in our business a referral is a very precious thing. We work hard to be able to ask our clients to provide us with referrals. The preferred method of communicatin

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. If I understood correctly, there were two questions. The first concerns mass emailing. I am an entrepreneur and I have a clientele. I do financial planning with about 500 families. If a client does me the honour of referring a potential client, I send an

Industry committee  Bonjour. My name is Paul Vaillancourt. The proposed clause 6 prohibits one-to-one e-mails of specifically directed marketing communications, which are not by their nature intrusive in the lives of recipients and do not create economic harm. My clients are my best sources of new