Conservatives plan to mass-text voters in 4 provinces to campaign against carbon tax | CBC News
Isn’t there laws against spamming?
Not illegal, but controversial
Fenwick McKelvey, a media and communications professor at Concordia University, said that the Conservatives’ mass-texting plan is perfectly legal — but it does raise some questions.
“Just because there’s a technical innovation, it doesn’t mean the parties should actually be doing that,” he said.
“I think there’s a real question here about whether setting up mass unsolicited text messages is a really good way of getting people engaged in politics.”