Ms. Nicole Ladouceur: So we're saying the general application will still apply with respect to epost in terms of a misleading representation. However, when you conduct a contest for which you request prior payment, be it through telemarketing—we have a special section—or be it through the mail, be it electronic or in fact the actual printed hard copy that you receive in your mailbox, we believe Bill C-438 would capture both.

(Motion agreed to) The Chair: The next one pertains to notices of motion: that a notice of 48 hours, interpreted as two nights—that's the same as two sleeps, I guess, is it?—be required before a member may move a substantive motion, unless it deals directly with the matter before the committee at this time, provided that: (a) this notice be emailed to the committee clerk no later than 4 p.m. from Monday to Friday; (b) that the notice be distributed by email to members in both official languages by the clerk on the same day the said notice was transmitted if it was received no later than the deadline hour; (c) that notices received afte ...[+++]r the deadline hour be deemed to have been received during the next business day; and (d) that this rule does not prevent a member from giving notice of a motion orally during a meeting of the committee, in which case notice shall be deemed to have been given before the deadline that day.

So if you go down to clause 3, one of the charging sections, and exchange the words “electronic mail” for “Internet service” and I read it, it says, “If a person is advised in the course of providing electronic mail..”.

Bill C-20 states that these notices should be sent to local newspapers and band councils by mail or electronically.

The motions presented by the Bloc Quebecois, only 18 motions concerning six clauses or three motions per clause on average, are mainly intended to change this so that notices are sent both by regular mail and the more modern medium, e-mail.

The postal sector is likely to evolve quite rapidly over the coming years because the development of electronic mail can replace traditional mail to a certain extent, automation of mail processing allows productivity to increase and the need to develop new or improved services (e-commerce will require efficient logistics networks to deliver goods and services throughout the Union).