Industry committee  Yes, we did.

Industry committee  They had seen it coming. It was a year later that the bill was introduced.

Industry committee  We don't talk about what they do business-wise, but I don't know that they're always preparing for whatever legislation or regulation might come down, when they don't know the exact form of it at that time. They were also invited to a CRTC meeting this past summer, the invitation

Industry committee  I think so, yes. There are a lot of things being proposed. If it all comes into force on royal assent, it's very quick, an AMP regime that is new being one example. Other than the criteria under which a penalty would be levied in the bill, that's all that exists. We don't know wh

Industry committee  I definitely agree with what the CRTC is saying. Because this is new and we haven't had this before, it would premature to say that these aren't high enough or stiff enough penalties. I'm not entirely sure what violations have been going on up to now that have not been enforced a

Industry committee  I don't know that those people in India are watching TV on those cellphones or streaming live video. The ability to have a cellphone and make calls is different from having what have been proven to be among the best networks in the world. Recent studies have shown that app respon

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm Kurt Eby. I'm the director of regulatory affairs and government relations at CWTA. Bernard sends his regrets. I'll be brief. I'm here to talk about one specific aspect of Bill C-43, and that is the amendments to the telecom act that would impose a p

Finance committee  Yes, and it's an app. There's no relationship between Starbucks and the device-maker or the wireless provider at all.

Finance committee  I would assume not.

Finance committee  I don't believe so. In most cases, the wireless companies—certainly with the agreements that are made now—aren't collecting anything. They don't know that you're making payments from your phone. It's standard information on transactions that the financial institutions or the cred

Finance committee  I'm not, no.

Finance committee  I couldn't say that. I'm just not aware of any, at least not for the types of payments that I'm talking about, which are through actual financial institutions. I believe I've seen stories about the Starbucks' bar code scanning thing. I think there have been fraud issues with thin

Finance committee  One thing that's important to remember when you hear about the options that might be based on location-based technology and things like that is that digital payments and use of personal information to offer you services are mutually exclusive. It's not that because you use Master

Finance committee  Just replicating the card isn't going to be enough to get it going. There have to be things like loyalty programs—they know when you've entered the store, so they can send you offers. But these, again, will be mutually exclusive. It will be up to the consumer to opt into these th

Finance committee  I don't believe so.