Industry committee  Perhaps not in all countries, but in the developed countries. There is a committee consisting of representatives of those countries.

Industry committee  Perhaps, yes.

Industry committee  Perhaps I didn't understand correctly. It's illegal to send spam to Canada from a foreign country.

Industry committee  Nobody can do it by whim. There would have to be a regulation to adapt certain of the rules that wouldn't necessarily fit terribly well with the voice communications. So we would expect that, again, there would be significant consultation before anybody contemplated proclaiming t

Industry committee  That is essentially true, with the caveat that the e-mail you send has to relate to their business or their functions. For instance--

Industry committee  That's right. He might need it, but you can't do it.

Industry committee  There are certain exemptions within the Access to Information Act on materials that are used for judicial or investigative purposes. I can't say that we've done a full analysis of how broad those exceptions might be. We did not provide in this for a sweeping exemption of this mat

Industry committee  The main motivator here is that technologically we are getting true convergence. That is, voice is digitized. Skype and other applications like that now mean that spam travels not just by mail. Telemarketing is not just done on telephones. They're converging. They're using the sa

Industry committee  You two have a business relationship and those two have a relationship based on friendship or family.

Industry committee  No, it does not.

Industry committee  Yes, you can. The answer to that is simply that you can take advantage of the conspicuous publication provisions or the giving of the business card type of thing so that in the business context it is easier to draw the situations in which--

Industry committee  That's very fair to say as well.

Industry committee  I would dare say that there is not one of the horrible spammers out there who even pretends to have had any kind of a pre-existing relationship with the consumer.

Industry committee  The legislation is not enacted until all the regulations are ready. Royal assent is the final step in Parliament. However, between royal assent by Parliament and enactment by Cabinet, at least six months will probably elapse, perhaps more, first to allow the regulations to be put

Industry committee  We recognize that any limitation on speech—and that includes commercial speech—has to comply with the charter. Based on our analysis, we believe this meets the requisite charter tests. We think it's charter-compliant.