Industry committee  When they look at soliciting money in regard to their research and their programs, they are undertaking fundraising activities. In their view, and some of the other opinions they received, activities such as a lottery is a game of chance; therefore, it is not a fundraiser. It res

Industry committee  There are multiple interpretations.

Industry committee  If the purpose of the gala is fundraising versus simply to host an event, then yes, if the funds are being used toward a goal or activity with a purpose. Simply buying a ticket to an event would be a commercial activity, however.

Industry committee  I would say that would be open to interpretation, potentially by the CRTC. Unfortunately, when I've asked them specifically about this as well, their answer tends to be that it's a case-by-case example when they look at the activities and the end goals, which I know is not nece

Industry committee  A lot of funds get driven toward payroll and non-charitable activities as well. I suppose it depends on the activity of the charity.

Industry committee  Sure. I consulted with the Heart and Stroke Foundation. It is a former client of mine. They had no problems figuring out what part of their email programs were deemed to be fundraising messages, which are the messages that are exempt, and their commercial activity such as their l

Industry committee  Sure. There are the right ways to do third party communications and there are the wrong ways to do third party communications. CASL actually allows for both, unfortunately. The right way that typical people will look at doing third party communications in regard to even the idea

Industry committee  A lot of the compliance efforts and a lot of the consulting that I've seen done really focus on education. Sure, you need someone who understands the law, you need maybe a legal opinion on a few business practices, but there are lots of solutions, many free, many paid for. Obviou

Industry committee  Absolutely. As a consumer who receives large volumes of spam, certainly I've had a personal interest in being able to go after that, but in turn, if my network provider and my email provider had the tools to go forward on my behalf, or on behalf of fellow consumers using their do

Industry committee  I'll be quick. Good afternoon to our distinguished members of Parliament. Thank you for inviting us to speak with you today. My name is Matthew Vernhout, and I am here on behalf of CAUCE, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. In my professional capacity, I am the

Industry committee  We've had a couple concerns, and we've sent them in in separate documentation. The first one is about forwarding to a friend. It's similar to the idea that you were just talking about in regard to introducing a friend to a product or to another individual. The way the “forward t

Industry committee  I do. Outside of the governments of the world coming together, I think you're starting to see organizations such as the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, with ISPs, ESPs, and private anti-spam organizations working together to really sort of push the envelope and ask how they

Industry committee  I would imagine it's double now--

Industry committee  --if not more than that, mainly because of the industry, almost, that came up to prevent spam. People have heavily invested in it, and the services are not cheap. The price for some of these services is somewhere in the area of $50 a month per mailbox. If you times that by 10,000

Industry committee  I would say what you're seeing is over 90%. I believe there was a study that came out last year that said it was 95% of traffic, and even the difference of a 1% increase represents billions of messages, as opposed to thousands, so the significance of a single percent of increase