{"id":27808,"date":"2022-09-19T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t3_xie85x"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:51:37","slug":"til-quebecs-consumer-laws-forbid-telus-from-charging-its-15-cc-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/2022\/09\/19\/til-quebecs-consumer-laws-forbid-telus-from-charging-its-15-cc-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"TIL Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s consumer laws forbid Telus from charging its 1,5% CC fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Telus will soon add a 1,5% fee for clients who pay with their credit card, except for those in Qu\u00e9bec. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Loi pour la protection du consommateur<\/em> makes it illegal for a company to charge more than the advertised price. The courts also ruled that paying with a credit card isn\u2019t a good reason to add fees, as it\u2019s just a payment method, not another service added to the bill. <\/p>\n<p>You have the power to circumvent the CRTC. Your provincial MPs can vote for stricter pro-consumer laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/affaires\/entreprises\/2022-08-12\/paiements-par-carte-de-credit\/telus-veut-imposer-des-frais-a-ses-clients-hors-quebec.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An article by La Presse explaining this, in french. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/PetitRorqualMtl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \/u\/PetitRorqualMtl <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/xie85x\/til_qu\u00e9becs_consumer_laws_forbid_telus_from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#32; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/xie85x\/til_qu\u00e9becs_consumer_laws_forbid_telus_from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><a href=\"\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telus will soon add a 1,5% fee for clients who pay with their credit card, except for those in Qu\u00e9bec. The Loi pour la protection du consommateur makes it illegal for a company to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}