Consumer Choice Center

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“Governing documents are available upon request at the organization's office.”

“The consumer choice center is the consumer advocacy group supporting lifestyle freedom, innovation, privacy, science, and consumer choice. The main policy areas we focus on are digital, mobility, lifestyle & consumer goods, and health & science.”

“Program: global consumer advocacy the consumer choice center focuses on advocating smart consumer policies across the globe. Some of our biggest successes in 2020 were: - canada: in ontario, it was previously prohibited for legal documents to be virtually commissioned, or notarized online. At the end of 2019, the ontario government asked for consultation on the allowance of both virtual commissioning, and online notarization. In january of 2020, the province announced changes to the notaries act, specifically legalizing both changes to ontario's legal system. In the announcement, ontario's attorney general doug downey quoted the consumer choice center's david clement. - brazil: due to the work of the consumer choice center, the chega de barreiras campaign reached more than 4 million people, with a high level of engagement. Our message resonated with consumers in brazil. This victory was consolidated in early february, when, in historic voting, anatel's board of directors relaxed the law and allowed the merger and operation of timewarner & at&t in brazil ruling it was not against article 5 of the seac law, opening precedent for new similar rulings on this subject. Finally after 8 months of consumer activism, the consumer choice center managed to be an integral part of this change ensuring that consumers in brazil continued to have access to quality and diverse audiovisual content and even opening space for brazil to break down more barriers to a bigger, better and stronger free market. - ukraine: in may 2020, the ukrainian government announced it was considering introducing tariffs on imported fertilisers from the eu. Though presented as a means to protect domestic industries, import quotas are not only highly protectionist but, more importantly, they are a sure sign there are some powerful domestic lobby interests at play. In the case of ukraine and fertilisers, it's the infamous oligarchs firtash and kolomoisky who initiated the review of ukrainian trade policy. Both own large nitrogen enterprises and have a record of pursuing a monopolistic position on the ukrainian market. Small and medium farmers and ukrainian consumers had the most to lose from the quotas. We have responded to the issue by writing extensively in ukrainian media to criticise such a move. Trade protectionism is damaging and costly and threatens consumer choice. Our european affairs associate maria chaplia appeared in multiple ukrainian outlets. On june 24th 2020, the ukrainian government decided against the quotas in favor of free trade. Trade with the eu is especially beneficial to ukraine as it allows cheaper food production at home in ukraine and hence lower food prices for ukrainians. We are very proud that we have played a role in bringing about this consumer-friendly outcome. - canada: north american affairs manager david clement appeared before british columbia's select standing committee on finance and government services to discuss cannabis taxation. In his presentation david explained that medical cannabis should be exempt from provincial sales taxes, for the following reasons: other prescription medicines are exempt from sales taxes. Removing the sales tax from medical cannabis would simply be treating medical cannabis like the prescription medicine it is. Taxing medicine is cruel, given that many medical cannabis patients are chronically ill and have limited incomes. In late august 2020 the committee released their official report to the legislature, which includes a recommendation that bc remove the provincial sales tax from medical cannabis purchases.”

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