In 2019, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission continued to enforce Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
(commonly known as "CASL") and issue guidance for CASL
compliance.
CASL
CASL creates a
comprehensive regime of offences, enforcement mechanisms and
potentially severe penalties designed to prohibit the sending of
unsolicited or misleading commercial electronic messages
("CEMs"), the unauthorized commercial installation and
use of computer programs on another person's computer system
and other forms of online fraud.
For most organizations, the key parts of CASL are the rules for
CEMs. Subject to limited exceptions, CASL creates an opt-in regime
that prohibits the sending of a CEM unless the recipient has given
consent (express or implied in limited circumstances) to receive
the CEM and the CEM complies with prescribed formalities (i.e.
information about the sender and an effective and promptly
implemented unsubscribe mechanism) and is not
