Regulators Will Cooperate To Enforce Canada’s Anti-Spam Law

Canada's Anti-spam Law (CASL) will largely come into force on July 1, 2014, and will be enforced by three regulatory agencies that have, to a certain extent, overlapping enforcement responsibilities.¹

On January 23, 2014, the Competition Bureau announced that the commissioner of competition had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the privacy commissioner of Canada and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to clarify the overlapping roles and responsibilities of the three participants. The MOU itself is dated October 22, 2013.²

The MOU covers a number of topics, including notification, enforcement cooperation and information sharing, criminal enforcement, and confidentiality of information.