Under the regulations, charities have a limited exemption. Our understanding of the intent of the officials who wrote the exemption was that it was meant to cover virtually any commercial message that a charity might send.
When we published the information that the officials at what was then Industry Canada had vetted and confirmed was accurate, we were contacted by the CRTC. They said to hold on, that they were the enforcement agency and that they were not sure that was what the exemption meant, but they couldn't really tell us what they thought the exemption meant.
What we'd be looking for is a much more clearly worded exemption from the consent provisions.