{"id":232751,"date":"2025-10-22T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232751\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:36:10","slug":"doug-ford-says-ontario-to-re-examine-law-capping-ticket-resale-prices-amid-gouging-for-blue-jays-world-series-cp24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232751\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Ford says Ontario to re-examine law capping ticket resale prices amid \u2018gouging\u2019 for Blue Jays World Series \u2013 CP24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is eyeing legislation that would cap ticket resale prices as thousands of Toronto Blue Jays fans find themselves priced out of World Series tickets that are now reselling for thousands of dollars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re gouging the people,\u201d Ford told reporters during a scrum at Queen\u2019s Park Wednesday. \u201cWhen you have one player in the market that controls the tickets, that\u2019s not right for the people. So we\u2019re actually right now considering legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">World Series tickets for four home games went on sale Tuesday morning and were almost completely snatched up within 30 minutes. However, resale tickets almost immediately appeared on Ticketmaster\u2019s website for many times the price of face-value tickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday afternoon, some tickets for Game 7 were listed for as much as $16,000 on resale sites. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI just don\u2019t believe in one company controlling everything, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now with Ticketmaster, in my opinion,\u201d Ford said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2019, the Ford government scrapped a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/ottawa\/article\/ontario-scraps-ticket-resale-price-cap-increases-fines-for-violating-ticket-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">law that would capped ticket resale prices<\/a> at 50 per cent above the original face value, calling it \u201cunenforceable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement to CP24, a spokesperson for Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Stephen Crawford said current laws prevent businesses from engaging in \u201cunfair practices.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOntario\u2019s consumer protection statutes ensure buyers have the information they need to make informed choices. Under the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), businesses are not allowed to engage in \u2018unfair practices,\u2019 where they are charging a price that grossly exceeds the price at which similar goods or services are readily available to consumers,\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe Ticket Sales Act also requires those who facilitate the resale of a ticket for more than its face value to provide the purchaser with either a written confirmation from the primary seller that the ticket is valid or a money-back guarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ticketmaster did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ford\u2019s remarks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is eyeing legislation that would cap ticket resale prices as thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-232751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}