The objective and the thrust of this bill is to prohibit certain financial institutions, including broadcasting and telecommunications undertakings and companies to which the Insurance Companies Act applies, from charging money to their regular clients for the provision or sale of a new service without the expressed consent of the client.

Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Consent should be given prior to a charge."?

Pick your answer from:
(a). Yes
(b). It's impossible to say
(c). No
I think the answer is
(a).