Andrew Scheer racks up millions in fines violating Do Not Call List with mass texts

Andrew Scheer trying to explain to a robocall that his ducts are fine, it's his clock that needs cleaning

Did you get a text message yesterday from an Emma, Sue or Karen telling you about the new law coming into effect on April 1st and how you should support the oil industry before it comes into effect? Did you find it annoying and wish the people who did it got punished? Well good news! The Conservative Party of Canada has racked up $2.1 million in fines after Andrew Scheer directed his party to send out the text messages, because it turns out mass sending unsolicited texts to Canadians violates clauses in the National Do Not Call List.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission was apparently geared up to issue the fine as soon as the Conservatives sent out the messages. "It was really stupid to announce ahead of time that they were going to do this," said Pablo Rodríguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and overseer of the CRTC. "Everybody knew as soon as they said it that it was probably a violation of something, and the people at the CRTC immediately got to work figuring how exactly, but the fact that they were able to use the Do Not Call List after it had been such a failure, that was brilliant. I'm sure Scheer didn't see it coming, especially not a few hours after it got sent out. That's how prepared they were, they had all the paperwork ready to go, they just needed the actual messages and numbers they sent them from. As soon as they had that figured out, it was an easy process of pulling up all the numbers they'd sent messages too and cross referencing them with numbers on the DNCL, and bang, they've got them."
The Conservatives have so far refused to talk about the fines, no doubt for fear of making their actions more known to the public since they attempted to make the messages look to be from ordinary citizens. Or perhaps Scheer doesn't want his extremely generous donors knowing what he's had to spend their money on. But those are just this writer's speculations. If any Conservatives do comment or there are any more developments, we'll let you know dear readers, so refresh your page every few minutes for the latest updates!