Industry committee  Eventually.

Industry committee  I have a further comment on this. One of the sensitivities that came up was the potential for conflict between legislation. PIPEDA recognizes that it is acceptable to collect information by electronic means to satisfy a police warrant or a court order. When we reflected on this,

Industry committee  You have the guy who's the expert on parliamentary procedure. I'm inclined to see it as Mr. Rota does, that it doesn't contradict any of the provisions in--

Industry committee  Electronic addresses are much less sensitive. They include things like Internet addresses that are not personal. Every time you log onto Bell Sympatico or something of that nature, you get a number assigned for that session. When you log off, it's reassigned to somebody else for

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  Unauthorized access to a computer system in order to trawl personal information would not be an accepted purpose under this amendment, so it would be more restrictive.

Industry committee  That's probably true.

Industry committee  The reason it's not possible to have exactly the same definition of electronic address in both PIPEDA and the ECPA, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act, is that under PIPEDA certain forms of information, particularly telephone accounts or telephone numbers, are not considered

Industry committee  That is another addition designed to broaden the approach. There are other similar powers elsewhere in the Competition Act. Before a matter can be brought to court, there are often cases where improper activity must be stopped or where more victims and further damage must be prev

Industry committee  I was actually speaking to clause 73.

Industry committee  I think the chief thing to bring to the committee's attention is the fact that section 52.01 is a mens rea offence. We have to actually prove that the person knowingly, willingly, and intentionally did the act. So there is a lot of comfort there, in that trivial cases will not be

Industry committee  Previously, we had provisions in the law that prohibited the use of false or misleading representations in hard copy, in newspapers, for example, or advertising or telemarketing. But we had no means of prohibiting false representations in electronic communications such as e-mail.

Industry committee  The amendment requires that the information stated in the header--centre information or subject line--is false and misleading. I don't know, when we're talking about the very bare-bones material we have in the header and centre information, that we could expect that the informati

Industry committee  Yes, you're correct.

Industry committee  First of all, people from our own department, but also from the CRTC and from the Competition Bureau asked questions and clarified points on what had to be done with regard to these provisions.