It is illegal for them to contact you unsolicited.
If you are a registered Liberal and gave written or implied permission, it's ok,
but they can't use Automated Dialing and messages to contact you without it.
Political parties can call whomever they want. They are exempt from DNC . So are riding associations.
This is not about "do not call". It is against the law in Canada to contact anyone by automatic means (dialers, SMS) who whom you cannot prove was inviting your call. The issue is not the fact that OP was "contacted" but "how" - "Erin" did not personally text a bunch of people one at a time. "Erin" is most likely the name of an "electronic list" or "database" of numbers in one area taken from the recent CENSUS.
These are "exempt" telemarketers soliciting for votes or polling, but they must still comply with the statutory law found here: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/trules-reglest.htm
The aspect I mentioned is in Part IV: Automatic Dialing-Announcing Device (ADAD) Rules
2. 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 via an ADAD unless express consent has been provided by the consumer to receive a telemarketing telecommunication via an ADAD from that telemarketer or the client of that telemarketer.
and
Part V: Express Consent
2. The onus is on the telemarketer and, where applicable, the client of the telemarketer to demonstrate that valid express consent was given by the consumer.
It is illegal for them to contact you unsolicited. If you are a registered Liberal and gave written or implied permission, it's ok,
but they can't use Automated Dialing and messages to contact you without it.
CRTC violation.
This is not about "do not call". It is against the law in Canada to contact anyone by automatic means (dialers, SMS) who whom you cannot prove was inviting your call. The issue is not the fact that OP was "contacted" but "how" - "Erin" did not personally text a bunch of people one at a time. "Erin" is most likely the name of an "electronic list" or "database" of numbers in one area taken from the recent CENSUS.
These are "exempt" telemarketers soliciting for votes or polling, but they must still comply with the statutory law found here:
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/trules-reglest.htm
The aspect I mentioned is in Part IV: Automatic Dialing-Announcing Device (ADAD) Rules
2. 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 via an ADAD unless express consent has been provided by the consumer to receive a telemarketing telecommunication via an ADAD from that telemarketer or the client of that telemarketer.
and
Part V: Express Consent 2. The onus is on the telemarketer and, where applicable, the client of the telemarketer to demonstrate that valid express consent was given by the consumer.
You've skimmed all the support you're ever going to get off of the CPC.
You should probably be redirecting your efforts towards trying to preserve the support you're now about to start hemorrhaging to the Sloan party.
https://media.omegacanada.win/post/96eXTW5h.png
Oh look Mashiki learned a new word: "Hemorrhaging."
How cute.