Ontario makes ticket scalping difficult | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Somewhat related news. I just thought this was interesting and

0:03 Speaker 1: we'll have to end on this. We don't have much time.

0:05 Speaker 1: This is also from Digital Musicnews dot Com. Ontario, our

0:10 Speaker 1: neighbors to the north up in Canada. Ontario begins enforcement

0:14 Speaker 1: of its hardline ticket scalping ban, the most aggressive ticket

0:18 Speaker 1: resale law in North America. Ontario's ban on resale for

0:23 Speaker 1: profit is now the most aggressive ticket resale law on

0:28 Speaker 1: the continent, overtaking Maine's ten percent resale price cap that

0:32 Speaker 1: passed in June twenty twenty five. The Canadian province now

0:36 Speaker 1: joins Ireland, Denmark, Italy, and France in banning ticket resale

0:40 Speaker 1: for profit, while the UK and select states in the

0:43 Speaker 1: US only have proposed caps. The Ontario government has successfully

0:48 Speaker 1: enacted a ban on ticket resale above the original face value,

0:52 Speaker 1: just two months after Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the reform.

0:56 Speaker 1: The government has begun enforcement ahead of the twenty twenty

0:59 Speaker 1: six feet World Cup, which starts on June twelve in Ontario.

1:05 Speaker 1: So if it wasn't for the FIFA World Cup, I

1:07 Speaker 1: wonder if any of this would even be on the

1:09 Speaker 1: radar of any of these people. Remember Doug Ford's brother.

1:13 Speaker 1: Was it Tom Ford? He was an interesting person. The

1:17 Speaker 1: reform passed is part of the Ontario government's latest budget bill,

1:21 Speaker 1: which received royal assent on April twenty four. Schedule sixteen

1:25 Speaker 1: of the bill amends the Ticket Sales Act of twenty

1:28 Speaker 1: seventeen to require that quote a ticket may only be

1:32 Speaker 1: made available for sale on the secondary market for an

1:34 Speaker 1: amount that exceeds the total price paid when the ticket

1:37 Speaker 1: was purchased from the primary seller, plus any applicable fees,

1:41 Speaker 1: service charges, and taxes charged by the secondary seller or

1:44 Speaker 1: operator of a secondary ticketing platform. Unquote. That's a lot

1:49 Speaker 1: of words, but it sounds like they want to put

1:52 Speaker 1: a cap on what you can resell a ticket for,

1:56 Speaker 1: so you can't buy a ticket for ten dollars and

1:58 Speaker 1: then turn around and resell it for twenty. It says

2:01 Speaker 1: here the significant amendment to the Ticket Sales Act comes

2:05 Speaker 1: even I'm sorry, comes seven years after a failed reform

2:09 Speaker 1: bill which proposed capping resale price at fifty percent above

2:13 Speaker 1: face value. The Ontario government has taken swift action to

2:18 Speaker 1: ensure that ticketing platforms comply with the new regulation, including

2:21 Speaker 1: sending notices to vendors for upcoming inspections. So the article

2:27 Speaker 1: goes on from there, but Ontario is taking this pretty seriously. Again,

2:32 Speaker 1: I have to wonder if this, if any of this,

2:34 Speaker 1: would be on their radar were it not for the

2:38 Speaker 1: FIFA World Cup, because tickets to that, I assume are

2:43 Speaker 1: very expensive and they don't want the scalping going on.

2:47 Speaker 1: So we'll see. But that is up at Digital musicnews

2:50 Speaker 1: dot com if you want to read the entire article.

2:52 Speaker 1: It does get pretty deep into the weeds.