Much analysis and guidance has been written about the new requirements (and significant penalties) imposed on senders of unsolicited e-mail by the Canadian Anti-Spam Law set to go into effect in the fall. What seems less thoroughly addressed to my non-lawyerly eyes is what specific liability is created by violations of CASL upon the ESP used by their clients to transmit the infringing commercial electronic message (CEM).

I put the question to Neil Schwartzman, a long-time colleague and Executive Director of CAUCE North America, one of the very earliest anti-spam advocacy groups and the primary driver of CASL through its storied journey across the Canadian legislative landscape. Neil recently left ReturnPath to start CASLconsulting.com, a firm offering expertise on CASL compliance. He and consulting legal counsel Shaun Brown of nNovation LLP respond:

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