{"id":62,"date":"2008-07-30T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-07-30T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T15:43:24","slug":"finally-canadian-do-not-call-list-launching-on-sept-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Finally!  Canadian Do-Not-Call list launching on Sept. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the Toronto Star: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Business\/article\/469757\">http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Business\/article\/469757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it won&#8217;t work since there are exceptions for &#8220;charities, political parties, pollsters and established business relationships.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The latter is the biggest problem&#8230; do you think it&#8217;s restricted to <em>direct<\/em> business relationships?\u00c2\u00a0 Will it also allow &#8220;business partners&#8221; to call you repeatedly with automated dialers 50 times a day and when you finally pick up they don&#8217;t have an agent available for more than 10 seconds?\u00c2\u00a0 Will it allow the business parter of those business partners to call you?\u00c2\u00a0 When they break the rules, will there be consequences or will you have to go to trial to stop an offending telemarketer from calling you?<\/p>\n<p>In any case, a telemarketer can just open a limited lilability corporation that breaks the rules; when the hammer is about to drop, they can close shop and create a new corporation.\u00c2\u00a0 And what about foreign companies using VOIP to call you for real cheap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the Toronto Star: http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Business\/article\/469757 Of course, it won&#8217;t work since there are exceptions for &#8220;charities, political parties, pollsters and established business relationships.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The latter is the biggest problem&#8230; do you think it&#8217;s restricted to direct business relationships?\u00c2\u00a0 Will it also allow &#8220;business partners&#8221; to call you repeatedly with automated dialers 50 times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamsterinawheel.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}