He has introduced a private member's bill in the Ontario legislature to outlaw "gender-based" pricing. Berardinetti says his bill would make it illegal for women to be charged more for similar products and services than men. It will be debated April 14th.
If passed, the bill would prevent Ontario businesses such as dry cleaners and hairdressers from charging different prices for men and women. Fines of up to $50,000 would be imposed on anyone having gender-based prices for products and services. The newly-married politician says he didn't realize the extent of gender pricing until he went shopping for clothes with his wife. He noticed clothes made for men were invariably cheaper than those for women even though they were the same brand.
Talk about thinking with your dick. Sometimes I am absolutely aghast at the lack of thinking that goes on at Queen’s Park. There are just so many issues with the concept of this bill that I don’t know where to start but I do know that this is one marriage I don’t envy. If Beradinetti really needed a “women’s issue” to flog and score brownie points with the wife; why couldn’t he do something that might have value like investigate why pantyhose/nylons fall apart usually after the first or second wear?
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Thankfully private members bills rarely pass. I can't see this one getting through.
Perhaps, not this time, but we should take this as a sign of where the dialogue is moving unless we actively work at shutting it down now.
Just think about to how many of the current dacronian laws are on the books now that were unthinkable even as little as 10 years ago.
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