Yes, also from Canada it’s absolutely the worst. I came from the Netherlands, and it’s absolute world of difference. The telcos need to resolve this at a system level and get rid of these call centre software solutions. However, I’m sure Telus/Bell/Rodger are all get lots of money from all these calls so no incentive to stop them.
Can’t help but think that at some point people made the wrong decision along the way.
There are many things they could improve on and I think dealing with spam is probably low on their list.
The effect was that spam calls directly benefited the telcos at the expense of the person called if they answered the call.
I've lived and worked in Canada for many years, the longer I was there the more the outward shine wore off and eventually I just saw it as a loosely collected set of monopolies with the state backing them filtering every dollar from Canadians that they could get their hands on.