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Legislative Assembly of Ontario
November 15, 1995
House Debates
Members’ Statement
Tony Martin, MPP
The Committee of the Whole
1st session, 37th Parliament
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
FRANCHISE BUSINESSES
Mr
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The franchising industry has been stressed for a number of years now by unscrupulous big franchisers taking advantage of unsuspecting, anxious small entrepreneurs, among many others, immigrants
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, Money laundering, Banks, Ontario Securities Commission, Ombudsman, Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, Canada, 20030513 Financial industry
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for a scoop of Baskin-Robbins. The Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Co. chain has stores across Canada. (An official at Baskin-Robbins could not be reached for comment.)
Still, industry observers believe price won't
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“Franchising in Canada is booming,” Schafer says. “The industry is worth about $90 billion, and our membership is up to about 300, which means it has just about doubled in just three years.”
At the same time
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The bill comes after years of demands from opposition parties and even from the industry itself. They say the absence of guidelines has allowed unscrupulous lenders to charge sky-high rates
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abundance and public squalor.
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2006
Galbraith was Canada's Keynes
Thomas S. Axworthy
Lovers of elegance in thought and eloquence in prose are grieving over the deaths of Jane Jacobs
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on the franchise industry, 1971
That was 22 years ago.
But people in Ontario and everywhere else in Canada except Alberta still don’t have any legislation to protect them from the pitfalls
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"In terms of market recognition, they're it. They're the McDonald's of the industry," said Windsor lawyer Jasminka Kalajdzic…"I guess if you're going to label them best to the worst, they're
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on the industry."
It is a shadowy business, although it operates in plain view. There are roughly 1,200 payday lending outlets in Canada, most found in strip malls or seedy retail zones. They cater to people
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