Industry committee  I don't think so. We haven't taken a position on private right of action, perhaps because we're a mature law enforcement agency. We've had it for a long time, and have not intervened ourselves.

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. There are some challenges with those aspects of the law as well, because the criminal spammers are going to great lengths to hide their identity. We've seen several spoofed websites. My colleague mentioned RBC. We've seen, with the Bank of Montreal. “BMO.net” up

Industry committee  Sometimes there are multiple sources, and we also develop our own intelligence. We receive intelligence on fraud, for example, from the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. We are part of the joint management team of that organization. Sometimes this information and other sources of intel

Industry committee  Sometimes the lines are blurry between the types of complaints we might see in conjunction with our delivery partners at the CRTC and OPC. For example, there might be a false or misleading representation in the body of the message or in the locator or sender information in a mess

Industry committee  Yes, ours does. False and misleading representation by any means will be pursued by us under these provisions.

Industry committee  It's somewhat difficult to measure because of the scale of the economics, the scale of populations. There's no doubt that two of our most important partners, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, are enormously well resourced. We all know that. We are c

Industry committee  What we've seen as we've moved into the digital economy becoming the economy is that in many cases, the same actors that were once on the phone and engaged in telemarketing have moved their activities online. Our piece of CASL, through these minor amendments to the Competition Ac

Industry committee  When there is a consent order with the Competition Tribunal, and a civil matter is violated in this fashion, it slips things over to a knowing and reckless offence. In this case, we're looking at criminal charges. In the end, Mr. Hovila spent two and half years in jail and was or

Industry committee  It's the only one.

Industry committee  There are perhaps just a couple of soft spots we've noticed in the course of our examinations over the last three years, just points of clarity that don't appear to be readily apparent to us. For example, we have an injunctive power that's been added to our act with CASL. We can

Industry committee  What is meant by “send or cause to be sent ” under the Competition Act? This would allow us to better understand how to use our new provisions to address online threats such as those technical support scams in which you receive a pop-up on your computer screen. We would take the