Industry committee  This is done through automated systems nowadays, most of which are free for small business. If you have a 50,000 client data base, there will be costs, but it will generally cost between $100 and $300 a month, and if you have 50,000 clients in your data base, that is not a proble

Industry committee  As I said earlier, the CRTC's lack of clarity as to the interpretation of the act forces us to impose excessive measures on companies so that they comply with the law, but they have to be ready for anything. That is a big problem. Another problem involves the synchronization of

Industry committee  The problem is that the CRTC asks us to go beyond the technology and see to it that two unrelated technologies communicate. It can be done, but it is complicated, because the CRTC did not inform the tech businesses about this, and so they did not think to manage that aspect.

Industry committee  With regard to the data, there were three studies done on SMEs in 2017. This is recent; I won't go back to 2014. We did a survey in February of about one hundred SMEs in Quebec, in all sectors. The Insurance and Investment Journal, a magazine published by the insurance industry,

Industry committee  That would work with the highway traffic act as well. Oh, oh!

Industry committee  In fact, the goal is to have them comply with the law. At the end of the process, they have completed their compliance program; they have the documents required by the CRTC.

Industry committee  It is a one-time cost. You only pay the fee once.

Industry committee  Our certification is valid for one year, however. We provide one year of support and regulatory monitoring.

Industry committee  The following year, if they want to renew their certification, it will cost them between $100 and $300 a year.

Industry committee  The presentations I heard from people who spoke on behalf of small businesses were essentially from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the CFIB, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. As members of the CFIB, we receive its emails. I also heard representatives from th

Industry committee  Frankly, here is what I recommend. In fact, one of the blog posts we wrote recently had the following subtitle: “Is there a marketer in the room?” That is the role I try to play. I would say that you should talk to people who are SME email marketing specialists. There are enterpr

Industry committee  What we would like the CRTC to do first and foremost is clarify its interpretation of the act. We identified about a hundred compliance issues for an ordinary SME. For half of these problems, we do not know what the CRTC's interpretation would be. What we see based on the rare pu

Industry committee  We offer our services to businesses of all sizes—with up to 300 employees—in a variety of sectors. We have worked with NPOs, museums, associations, as well as with businesses in the fields of insurance, marketing, media and road transportation. This applies to any situation. We

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  It's commercial accreditation, not legal.