I used to work for a mailing company that did a lot of prospect mailings. What would happen is a charity like Canadian Cancer Society would send off twenty thousand letters to people asking for a donation. Canadian Cancer Society would go to other charities or organizations asking for a trade file of their donors which would be around one thousand to five thousand records. We would merge all these files together purging duplicates and then mail off the letters.

It looks like Maxime Bernier obtained the Tamil donors from the Ontario PC list and is now trying to sign them up. There's nothing illegal about it. I'm not certain about the prepaid credit card allegations.