Canadians Sold Out by the CRTC

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    Did you put your name on the Canadian Do-Not-Call list and get the opposite effect that you had hoped for? If yes, you are among six million other Canadians who are now being harassed by telemarketers more than ever despite signing up for the service that promised your number would be removed from any commercial use list. It was reported on Friday that the CRTC has taken the calling information  and sold it to companies who have in turn used it as a new call list. Canada's Industry Minister, Tony Clement warned yesterday that any company found abusing the registry will face severe penalties.

    Clement stated that fines will be approximately $15,000/per call made by any company but penalizing foreign companies will be difficult. 

    CRTC spokes person Denis Carmel who feels badly about what happened is trying to reverse the mistake stating that, " if a foreign telemarketer abuses the registry to sell a product in Canada, the Canadian distributor of that product would be held accountable. If they have no Canadian connection...we will issue the fine and see how that goes."