Procedure and House Affairs committee  The proposed legislation requires the CRTC to publish the registration notices within 30 days after the polling date. The registration notices that have been filed with us would be publicly available, and presumably if somebody received calls and doesn't see the registration noti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Just to clarify, the obligations under Bill C-23 are for the calling service provider or the group in question to retain the script or the transcript of the messages. When the CRTC conducts investigations, we can request those as part of our investigation, but they don't act

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it's covered by the definition of voter contact services. There are five different kinds of situations covered by those voter contact calls. One of the situations is fundraising calls.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The requirement under the legislation is for registration notices to be filed with us when voter contact services take place, and those services would cover fundraising. But the question, under the legislation, of exemptions of certain fundraising services, as contained in propos

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm not quite sure I understand what the reference is to what is being retained. Is it the registration notice, or the script of a call, or a transcript of a recording?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The registration notices are required to be filed with the CRTC and then the obligation under the legislation is that where scripts have to be maintained or recordings of messages sent through robocalls, they have to be retained by the calling service provider or by the group tha

Procedure and House Affairs committee  These are new obligations that don't exist under the current regime of the national do-not-call list.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman, we will do so, to the best of our ability.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, we have unsolicited telecommunication rules that exist currently. They cover automatic dialing announcing devices. For calls that are made using automatic dialing announcing devices there are rules regarding the times of day during which those calls may be made. I b

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The bill provides that the obligations fall on the CRTC as of the 2015 election, and we're confident, based on our experience under the unsolicited telecommunications rules with telemarketers, that we will be able to assume our obligations should the bill be passed.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's our goal.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If the rules are followed as the provisions are set out in the bill, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, the proposed legislation creates new obligations that did not exist before. The important obligations that are new and would serve to address some of the problems that occurred with Pierre Poutine would be the requirement that the group or party or person seeking th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good afternoon. My name is Christianne Laizner and I'm the senior general counsel at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. With me today is Manon Bombardier who is the CRTC chief compliance and enforcement officer. We are p