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Ottawa, 25 July 2019

NOTICE OF VIOLATION

File No.: PDR 9174-2552

To: Matthew Cole

Address:
151 St. David St. N
Fergus, Ontario N1M 2J5

Date of Notice and Payment: 19 August 2019

Penalty: Amount $4,000

Pursuant to section 72.07 of the Telecommunications Act, S.C. 1993, c. 38 (the Act), the undersigned has issued this Notice of Violation finding Matthew Cole to have committed the following violations contrary to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC’s) Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules (the Rules) made under section 41 of the Act:

On and between 19 July 2014 to 5 October 2015, telemarketing telecommunications were initiated on behalf of Matthew Cole resulting in violations of Part II, section 4 of the Rules, for initiating telemarketing telecommunications to telephone numbers registered on the National Do Not Call List (DNCL), Part II, section 7 of the Rules for initiating telemarketing telecommunications on behalf of clients while its clients were not registered subscribers of the National DNCL and had not paid all applicable fees to the National DNCL operator, and Part III, section 3 of the Rules, for initiating telemarketing telecommunications on behalf of clients while its clients were not registered with the National DNCL.

Pursuant to section 72.01 of the Act, the undersigned has determined that the penalty for the violations identified above is $4,000.

The penalty of $4,000 must be paid by Matthew Cole to “The Receiver General for Canada” in accordance with subsection 72.09(3) of the Act.

Alain Garneau
Director 
Compliance and Enforcement Sector

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