Wait For It: Government To Clarify Anti-Spam Law – Eventually

Changes may be afoot to clarify the scope of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), improve public awareness of the law's requirements and provide greater transparency with respect to its enforcement and investigative process -- although it would appear that any such changes may be years away.

That appears to be the essential message in the government's recent response to the December 2017 report of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU), which had recommended a number of changes and clarifications to the law.

As we reported previously, while stopping short of making specific recommendations as to how to revise the law, the INDU report did make a number of general recommendations to clarify the uncertainty with respect to the interpretation of many of the law's provisions, as well as to avoid overly burdensome costs of compliance.