Notice of Violation: Société Alimentaire MC Inc. (Alimentation Garde-Manger)
File No.: PDR 9174-3135
To: Société Alimentaire MC Inc. (Alimentation Garde-Manger)
Address:
9355 Métropolitain Blvd Est #200
Anjou, Québec
H1J 3C1
Issue Date of Notice: 13 July 2021
Penalty: $15,000
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 Alimentation Garde-Manger to have committed the following violations contrary to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules (the Rules) made under section 41 of the Act:
On and between 25 October 2018 and 25 October 2020, telemarketing telecommunications were made on behalf of Alimentation Garde-Manger resulting in violations of:
- Part II, section 6 of the Rules, which states that a telemarketer shall not initiate a telemarketing telecommunication on its own behalf unless it is a registered subscriber of the National DNCL and has paid all applicable fees to the National DNCL operator;
- Part III, section 8, of the Rules which states that a telemarketer initiating a telemarketing telecommunication on its own behalf shall maintain its own do not call list and shall keep a consumer's name and telecommunications number on the list for a period of three (3) years and fourteen (14) days from the date of the consumer's do not call request;
Pursuant to 72.16 of the Act, a person is liable for a violation that is committed by an employee of the person acting in the course of the employee’s employment, or by an agent or mandatary of the person acting within the scope of the agent’s or mandatary’s authority, whether or not the employee or agent or mandatary who actually committed the violation is identified or proceeded against.
Pursuant to section 72.01 of the Act, the undersigned has determined that the total penalty for the violations identified above is of $15,000.
The penalty of $15,000 must be paid to "The Receiver General for Canada" in accordance with subsection 72.09(3) of the Act.
Alain Garneau
Director – Telecommunication Enforcement
Compliance and Enforcement Sector
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