The Progressive Conservative government paused implementation of that section of the Ticket Sales Act -- brought in by the previous Liberal government -- shortly after the election last year. Now, as announced in its new budget, it is cancelling the rule.
Ticket resale site StubHub had warned the previous government that artificially controlling a global market would lead to resales being "driven off of secure channels" into the black market. "What we originally with the bill was to say we want to be fair," he said. "It should be accessible to people. They shouldn't have to pay two or three times the face value."
The Liberals introduced their legislation aimed at tackling "scalper bots" that scoop up huge blocks of tickets, after an outcry from fans shut out of the Tragically Hip's farewell tour. The Tories' changes leave the scalper bot prohibition intact and increase fines for non-compliance with the act from $10,000 to $25,000.
So what exactly is the ticket law now?
and how will fines be imposed? hard to manage?
Good way to raise revenue Fat Ford, impose fines on everything, might as well impose fines for taking a shit between the hours of 11PM & 7AM