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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
October 30, 2023 09:00AM

I thank the member opposite, and I’m looking forward to hearing his speech in the House later today as he enters the debate on this important bill.

It is a start, with section 60 of the act, where we address a 15-day period after which a NOSI must be extinguished by a business if a consumer contract is cancelled. That’s in this act, and it replaces what’s not in the other act. The existing act doesn’t address this. Over and above that, we are doing this consultation paper, this consultation period, up until December 1 of this year, because we know that we need to take immediate steps. One of those steps is recommending to homeowners to do a credit check or a title check on their own property to see if there’s anything unknown or surprising to them in terms of a registration on their title. That’s important. So just as a health check we carry out for our own personal health, do so with your own home, even before you refinance yourself.

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I just want to thank the member for his speech earlier today. It has been an interesting afternoon. We talk about better for consumers, better for businesses—very important when affordability is an issue all across the board.

On this legislation, we talk about consumers feeling safe in the marketplace. We have a choice of where to spend our money and how to spend our money and we have to, obviously, look at spending our money wisely, and we want to make sure we give our consumers peace of mind when spending their hard-earned wages.

I’m just wondering if you can elaborate on the steps the government is taking to enhance consumer confidence and ensure that people feel safe and secure when engaging in marketplace transactions, especially when it comes down to refunds. Can you touch on that? It was a little bit in your speech.

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