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Written by THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Monday, 20 October 2008 |
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OTTAWA - Canada's telecommunications regulator is looking at tweaking its telemarketing rules just weeks after introducing a national do-not-call list.
One change being mulled by the CRTC would see electoral candidates who are not members of political parties exempted from the list. Currently, only candidates that are members of registered political parties are exempted from the national registry.
The CRTC is also brainstorming ways to track and remove from the list numbers that have been disconnected or re-assigned. Numbers now on the list are registered for three years.
And the commission may also harmonize its telemarketing rules with provincial laws that restrict the hours in which auto-diallers can be used. The CRTC's rules on auto-diallers are out of step with the laws in some provinces.
Telemarketers are barred from dialling a number once it is on the list, and face a stiff fine if they do.
If a registered household files a complaint, the maximum fine is $1,500 for individual telemarketers and $15,000 for companies.
More than 3.3 million telephone, cellular and fax numbers have been registered on the do-not-call list since it was launched Sept. 30.
The CRTC has projected that 60 per cent of the 27 million residential telephone numbers in Canada would be registered on the list within the next two years.
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