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Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List

Posted by Zonk on from the not-a-good-list dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The creation of a do-not-call list in Canada has run into trouble. Michael Geist reports that the proposal has been effectively destroyed, with exceptions for just about every telemarketer including businesses, political parties, polling companies, and charities. The government committee apparently heard from the marketers but refused to listen to consumer groups."

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  1. Not Surprising by devphaeton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the U.S., the Do Not Call Registry was about as effective as well. The bosses signed up our business phone lines and nothing has really changed. We still get on average of 20-50 solicitation calls a day.

    That doesn't sound like much, but for a small mom-n-pop ISP run by 4 guys and a dog with 2 phone lines, it's awful. Fwiw, we're all pretty good at screening calls via Caller ID.

    Good luck to our fellow Canadian brethren, whether they've disowned us or not.

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  2. let them call by Keruo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    just do what I did, and get cell plan where you get refund for received calls.
    I've almost paid my last months phone bill, just by talking with telemarketers.
    You can easily keep them talking for about 30 minutes by asking everything about the product they're selling.

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