Okay, many people have been asking for this for quite some time and there seemed to have been a push when the US released their version of the list but ours seems to suck. Apparently there are a ton of exceptions. According to an article on the CBC website any number of groups can still call you.

“Charities, political parties, polling firms, newspapers and companies that have done business with an individual over the past 18 months can continue to make unsolicited phone calls. Canadians who do not wish to receive such calls can ask at the time of a call to be removed from the organization’s list, or contact them ahead of time and request the same.”

I suggest you give the article a read if you are a fellow Canadian. Then forget about using the service because the investment of your time in adding yourself will possibly out weight the time lost on hanging up on the telemarketer.

I must say that I prefer to get the one call, tell them I am not interested, ask them to remove my name from their list and then I log into my Primus account and perminantely block their number :)

Oh, and don’t forget that you will have to call them back ever 3 years to keep your phone number, cell phone number or fax number off that list.

Hey… maybe we can waste a couple of billion dollars on this like we did with gun registry that is a more of a bureaucracy registry than anything!