Notice of Violation: Betty Tam Chong
File No.: PDR 9174-3194
To: Betty Tam Chong
Address:
Suite 201-30 Eglinton Ave. West,
Mississauga ON, L5R 3E7
Issue Date of Notice: 25 January 2023
Penalty: $ 6,000
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 Betty Tam Chong 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 13 January 2021 and 28 July 2022, telemarketing telecommunications were made on behalf of Betty Tam Chong, resulting in violations of:
- Part II, section 4 of the Rules, which states that a telemarketer shall not initiate, and a client of a telemarketer shall make all reasonable efforts to ensure that the telemarketer does not initiate, a telemarketing telecommunication to a consumer's telecommunications number that is on the National DNCL, unless express consent has been provided by such consumer to be contacted via a telemarketing telecommunication by that telemarketer or the client of that telemarketer;
Pursuant to section 72.16 of the Act, a person is liable for a violation that is committed by an employee, or an agent or mandatary, of the person acting in the course of the employee’s employment or the scope of the agent’s or mandatary’s authority, whether or not the employee, agent or mandatary who actually committed the violation is identified or proceeded against in accordance with the Act.
Pursuant to section 72.01 of the Act, the undersigned has determined that the penalty for the violation identified above is of $6,000.
The penalty of $6,000 must be paid to The Receiver General for Canada in accordance with subsection 72.09(3) of the Act.
Alain Garneau
Director, Telecommunications Enforcement
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