New consumers’ bill pledged
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced "sweeping" new legislation yesterday to protect consumers from unsafe products and tainted food and drugs, and warned companies that care more about their profits than their customers will face "severe" punishment.
The proposed law would give the minister of health far-reaching new powers to pull products off the shelf after a series of high-profile voluntary recalls of toxic toys, tainted food and contaminated drugs in the last year.
SARAH SCHMIDT and MEAGAN FITZPATRICK
9 April 2008