CRTC Seeks Comments About Pending Canadian DNC List
The Canadian Radio Television Commission, the country’s telecommunications regulator, is seeking public comments from people who don’t want to receive unsolicited telemarketing calls, according to news reports. This is the latest development in a process that began nearly a year and a half ago. Late in 2004, the Canadian Parliament began considering (and later passed) legislation mending the Canadian Telecommunications Act to set up a do-not-call registry similar to the one in place in the U.S. (Direct Newsline, Dec. 14, 2004.
Right now, the CRTC is about to draft rules for the list and has begun the associated legal process. . The regulator wants input into specifics of the rules, and “which, if any, of the existing telemarketing rules continue to be necessary and appropriate.”
The CRTC would have the power to levy fines of up to $15,000 per violation against companies that break the new rules. A private-sector third party would operate and maintain the do-not-call list.
