Important Notice: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released new and revised Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules that will affect all telemarketers, including telemarketers making calls exempt from the National Do Not Call List (DNCL). For any telemarketer making exempt calls, it is important to understand the new and revised rules that will come into effect when the National DNCL is launched. The National DNCL should be launched by September 30, 2008.

The CRTC has been authorized to establish a National DNCL. The process to select a National DNCL operator began in July 2007; and on December 21, 2007, Bell Canada was awarded a five-year contract to implement and operate the National DNCL.  The CRTC expects the National DNCL to be launched