Don't call me, we'll... oh, just don't call me.

The good news: telemarketers in Canada will soon, ostensibly, be "forced to comply" with the Do Not Call Me list. By forced to comply, the CRTC means they'll be eligible for fines if a registrant on that list takes the time to complain about them.

Wow. Now, that is forcing compliance!¹ Way to go, CRTC!

On the other hand, it does seem to be a mostly light-weight, low-fi implementable solution, and those are often the most economical and useful in the long run. And, at least it's something.

But what chaps me about this is the fine schedule.

If a telemarketer bothers a private individual, it could be fined $1,500.

But, if the telemarketer stoops to bothering a corporation²? Try ten times as much.

Bah!


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¹ Plus, don't forget that compliance is only forced upon certain marketing organizations: exempt are charities, poitical parties, polling firms, newspapers, and companies you have done business with in the past 18 months (sic). You can request to be removed from their call lists, and you can even do so proactively. But you still must make that separate request.

² By corporation, perhaps the CRTC means "someone who's bothered to pay the huge rates for a business phone line"? Otherwise, there's not much to stop the little guy from complaining that telemarketers are interfering with their sole-propietorships...

Don't call me, we'll... oh, just don't call me.

The good news: telemarketers in Canada will soon, ostensibly, be "forced to comply" with the Do Not Call Me list. By forced to comply, the CRTC means they'll be eligible for fines if a registrant on that list takes the time to complain about them.

Wow. Now, that is forcing compliance!¹ Way to go, CRTC!

On the other hand, it does seem to be a mostly light-weight, low-fi implementable solution, and those are often the most economical and useful in the long run. And, at least it's something.

But what chaps me about this is the fine schedule.

If a telemarketer bothers a private individual, it could be fined $1,500.

But, if the telemarketer stoops to bothering a corporation²? Try ten times as much.

Bah!


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¹ Plus, don't forget that compliance is only forced upon certain marketing organizations: exempt are charities, poitical parties, polling firms, newspapers, and companies you have done business with in the past 18 months (sic). You can request to be removed from their call lists, and you can even do so proactively. But you still must make that separate request.

² By corporation, perhaps the CRTC means "someone who's bothered to pay the huge rates for a business phone line"? Otherwise, there's not much to stop the little guy from complaining that telemarketers are interfering with their sole-propietorships...