Do Not Call Registry

Posted on October 10, 2008 
Filed Under Ottawa Today / Interesting People, Places and Things

The Canadian Do Not Call Registry came into effect on September 30, 2008.  You can register your home phone, cell phone and fax numbers to prevent unwanted telemarketing calls.  The website is https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca

On the first couple of days, the website was overloaded with requests.  I recently registered my home number and found it easy to get to the site and fast.  All you do is enter your number and then the code that is provided.  The Do Not Call is effective approximately one month after registering. 

The new legislation allows calls from registered charities, polling organizations and businesses with which you are currently doing business, among others.  If you want these calls to stop, you need to contact each organization individually and ask them to place you on their do not call list.  While they must comply, it will take a few weeks for your request to be activated.

The following website http://www.ioptout.ca was created by a law professor at the University of Ottawa and provides a service where you can create your own Do Not Call List for the companies that are exempt from the Do Not Call registry.  You can choose which companies you don’t want to contact you.  The service, which is FREE, will notify those organizations of your request.

 Credit:  Thank you to my friend, ML, for reminding me about the registry and providing the two links. 

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