An election promise for a questionable consumer advocacy office is all but dead

Achieving greater marketplace compliance and consumer protection seems to be far from what is on the minds of most political and bureaucratic operatives these days.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne had his own ideas on how to proceed with the consumer file, writes Ken Rubin.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

October 30, 2024

OTTAWA—One of Justin Trudeau's promises from the Liberal 2019 election platform was to create a federal consumer advocacy office. But that—like other campaign promises—seems to have evaporated, and was both superficial and controversial.

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