Industry committee  It's a clarification. Some of our partners have raised the question of the application of this clause, and particularly of the need to draw a distinction between a contravention under clause 6 and a contravention under clauses 7 and 8. A contravention under the latter two clauses

Industry committee  This aspect was brought to our attention by government authorities. We made these changes in light of their comments. That's the explanation. This aspect had not been raised in the evidence heard before the committee.

Industry committee  I'm talking about the CRTC, the Competition Bureau—

Industry committee  Yes, of course. We apologize for providing these amendments so late. It must be said that this is a bit complicated. That's why we made a mistake at the outset, when we started amending this clause. Briefly, we have always contemplated damages for victims covered by the Competiti

Industry committee  We did a little research. The appeals from the Trade Tribunal's decisions are very similar. In addition, the CRTC's decisions are now subject to a similar time limit. So we found that limit reasonable.

Industry committee  No, and that's a problem. There is no standard time limit. That is why we decided to set a reasonable time limit comparable with those of other similar acts.

Industry committee  The real problem is the restriction on the application of this act, that is to say Canada's domestic act. If, on the other hand, one of our foreign partners requested information from Canada, we could use our powers under clause 17 or 19. We can use this information only to imple

Industry committee  It's precisely the problem, as I would see it. If it can be used only for the purpose of this act, it limits the CRTC's ability to share information with the Competition Bureau, because there it would be used for the purposes of another act. Similarly for the Privacy Commissioner

Industry committee  One of the purposes of this act, which we have actually added through clause 60 and through clauses 15, 17, and 19, is to facilitate the ability to share information so that they can be used under other acts, domestic and foreign.

Industry committee  That is, yes.

Industry committee  The problem, if you like, is that ECPA itself contains only the four contraventions, clauses 6, 7, 8, and 9. So the purposes of that act are limited to verifying compliance with or breaches of contraventions of those provisions. What we have done in the subsequent provisions of t

Industry committee  There are two impacts. I think the first one is internal to the act. If we were to say that the information is confidential and shall be used only for the purpose of this act, that would be rendering impossible what we were just discussing: the sharing of information with foreig

Industry committee  Yes. That is a potential consequence if the harm was happening someplace else.

Industry committee  No. Again, I'd have the same concern with the ability to use information for the purposes of, first, other domestic acts, particularly PIPEDA and the Competition Act, and second, sharing information that we have gotten in exercising our powers under this act with, for instance, t

Industry committee  I think the amendment is correct.