Commission contemplates tweaking telemarketing tenets

GATINEAU – The CRTC will take another look at three requirements associated with its Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules. The Commission taking another look at the three scenarios below: “to ensure that these rules, which include the National Do Not Call List (DNCL) Rules and the Automatic Dialing and Announcing Devices Rules, are applied in a fair and efficient manner,” says the release. * First, certain telemarketing calls and faxes are, by statute, exempt from the National DNCL Rules, including those made by or on behalf of electoral candidates that are members of registered political parties. However, some candidates in municipal, provincial...