The Ontario Liberals are raising concerns the provincial government could change whether consumer rewards programs expire, though the Ford government argues there’s no planned adjustment to the rules.

“The premier is sneaking through a piece of legislation that will allow everyday Ontarians’ reward points to expire,” said John Fraser, Liberal MPP, during question period on Monday.

At issue is the Progressive Conservatives’ Bill 46, an omnibus bill proposing several changes to provincial laws including Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act.

Currently, section 47 of the Act says that no company can create or change its rewards programs to add an expiration date to such program’s points.

That clause was added in 2016 by the then Liberal government, which came into force in 2017, to preven

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