NDP MP asks Privacy Commissioner and Competition Bureau to launch inquiry into ‘misleading and aggressive’ telecom sales practices

WINDSOR, ON — Brian Masse, MP for Windsor West and NDP Industry Critic, is asking the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Competition Bureau to launch an inquiry into whether Canadians’ privacy or consumer rights were violated by telecom companies whose “misleading and aggressive” sales practices were exposed earlier this week in a CRTC report.In a letter written on Wednesday and posted to his website on Thursday, Masse requested that the Privacy Commissioner and Competition Bureau launch further investigations into the findings of the CRTC’s report on Misleading or Aggressive Communications Retail Sales Practices, which was released February 20.“The report...