Ontario Consumer Protection Act Comes Into Force Today
 

With all the talk about the FTC etc. and other things going on in the US, nobody has mentioned this. The Ontario Consumer Protection Act comes into force July 30, 2005, which is today, and has several provisions in it regarding Internet transactions. How many Canadian companies are compliant?

Violations of the act can include fines and jail time:

"An individual who is convicted of an offence under this Act is liable to a fine of not more than $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day, or both, and a corporation that is convicted of an offence under this Act is liable to a fine of not more than $250,000."

Here's a good link that explains a lot of what is required under the act
http://www.the-cma.org/regulatory/co...protection.cfm

Here's the actual Act
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/S...sh/02c30_e.htm

yeah, the morons here are so worried about the US they miss the shit happening in their own back yard.

typical of "here today, gone tomorrow" crowd.