FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 1, 2025
Ford Pickpocketing Your Reward Points
– Backdoor change to Consumer Protection Act to let loyalty reward points expire –
QUEEN’S PARK – Stephen Blais, MPP for Orléans and Liberal Consumer Protection Advocate, is calling on the Government to back track on its mean-spirited attack on loyalty reward points. In Bill 46, the Ford government is removing the hard-fought protections that stop loyalty reward points from expiring with the passage of time.
“At Christmas, as the cost of living is skyrocketing, the Government is putting the interests of big business over middle-class families,” says Blais. “Is the Premier’s heart really two sizes too small?”
Reward points were protected against expiry in Ontario in 2016 following the passage of Bill 47: the Protecting Reward Points Act (Consumer Protection Amendment), 2016, introduced by Liberal MPP Arthur Potts.
“Ontario consumers aren’t asking for reward points to expire. Nobody campaigned on removing reward points. Letting reward points expire won’t ‘protect Ontario,’” adds Blais. “A responsible Government wouldn’t touch the protection of reward points with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole.”
Bill 47 was adopted unanimously by the Legislature with support from seven current government members, including the Government House Leader and Deputy Premier of Ontario, on December 5, 2016, and received Royal Assent before the end of the year.
“In 2016, Ontario Liberals gave Ontario consumers the wonderful Christmas gift of protecting reward points from expiry due to the passage of time,” adds Blais. “This Christmas, the Premier is playing the Grinch; sneaking into Whoville to snatch away families’ hard-earned reward points before they even get a chance to use them.”
Contact these offices to demand change:
- Premier’s Office: 416-325-1941
- Minister of Red Tape Reduction: 416-212-0088
- Consumer Protection Ontario: 416-326-8800