On July 1, a new law was to cap the price\u00a0scalpers and their scalper-bots could charge for tickets at 50 per cent more than the ticket\u2019s face value, but Doug Ford has quietly put an indefinite delay in place so\u00a0resellers can continue to scoop up swaths of tickets and gouge families on their resale.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDoug Ford has taken the side of scalper-bots, helping them to rip off and gouge Ontario families without an end in sight,\u201d said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath. \u201cThat\u2019s just wrong.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t know who Mr. Ford is working for with this change. But I know who I\u2019m working for: everyday families who want the opportunity to go to a baseball game as a family this summer, or take their daughter to her first concert. It\u2019s families that want life in Ontario to get more affordable, not more expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Liberals opened the door for scalper-bots in Ontario, which scoop up tickets to concerts and games for online ticket re-sale companies to sell at a massive markup. Under the new law that was supposed to come into force on July 1, scalper-bots can still swipe tickets out from under real people, but the markup scalpers can charge on those tickets is capped at 50 per cent over the face value of the ticket.<\/p>\n
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But\u00a0after taking office, Ford secretly cancelled the July 1 date, delaying indefinitely.<\/p>\n
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\u201cInstead of making Ontario more affordable for everyday families, Mr. Ford\u2019s move to make Ontario\u2019s events more expensive is a step backward,\u201d said Horwath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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