Dear Editor,

Our cellphone numbers absolutely must not be made public so the telemarketing twits can invade our privacy.

And to add insult to injury, it appears the cellphone owners have to pay for the call!

We often hear of privacy in Canada. If this is not a privacy issue, then I do not know what is.

Well, put the shoe on the telemarketers' foot: make them pay for the call, not me. Those nitwits pay minimum wages to the poor souls who have to endure the verbal abuse that they must have to put up with, for I do not know anyone who enjoys hearing from them.

They can flog their merchandise on TV, flyers, newspaper ads, or junk mail. That way, they aren't in the face of people having to put up with their nonsense.

If a cellphone owner has to pay for the "privilege" of their unwanted twaddle, it should come under the general heading of negative billing. Remember when Rogers tried to do that a few years ago? This absolutely must not be permitted.

Hear us, CRTC, this is unacceptable.

Robert W. Stirling, Maple Ridge