Is anyone else getting these CPC text messages?

https://lemmy.ca/post/42682471

Is anyone else getting these CPC text messages? - Lemmy.ca

If you’re voting conservative or liberal or NDP or Green, whatever … I didn’t sign up for any list. I also heard that you shouldn’t text STOP to these messages because they use that as confirmation of my number? I reported it to spam, I’m just curious if these are legit and how you handle these?

Not necessarily the same thing, but it could be.
Canadians alarmed by text messages asking their vote preference. Then their postal code. Then their name | CBC News

The Canadian Research Insights Council (CRIC), a polling industry association, has received numerous complaints about these text-message tactics from ERG National Research.

CBC
I haven’t got them (yet). Just use your device to block the number. If you want to register a complaint to the appropriate government department, that’s cool. I think interacting with the sender in any way (like texting “stop”) will result in you getting more of these messages in the future
Have had a few, I just block the number