Why Hindsight are you embracing an attitude of don't complain , when there are options to correct this ?
Hindsight if you like the approach by optimensch of "turning the opponents strength to be used against him" then why do you embrace a College accepting membership $$ for public protectionism ?
Hindsight is your approach not encouraging illegals to continue on against the College advertisements to the public ? Are you not telling us to accept and embrace illegals when the College states otherwise ?
Why should opticians not believe in the College advertisiements to the public ? Optician membership, through self governance is approving these advertisements to the public ? What if these advertisements should prove to be false ? Isn't it the duty of self governing membership to be certain of what they advertise to the public ? Are you saying that membership should not protect the public as they advertise ? Are you saying that membership should not pursue and uphold local applicable laws even if GOOGLE and Kijiji shows us the ways to make them comply with our local applicable laws ?
Why Hindsight are you encouraging that we do not remove the tools that onliners need to reach our customers ?
Why hindsight are you so against insisting that we not fight back with the tools that GOOGLE and Kijiji offer to us to ensure they are in compliance with local applicable laws ?
If we remove the tools that all onliners use to market to our customers then we cripple their geographic reach and it can be repeated in many provinces , states, and other countries ? Why do you not support the legal options available to us that will not put us directly in harms way ?
Google offers us a simple solution
as does
kijiji and many other search engines and on line marketing tools. Each of these explains to us the process to launch and file a complaint against offenders who use those marketing tools to circumvent local applicable laws. This complaint resoltion process has been used before by other and it resulted in 500 million dollar fines.
The Ontario College advertises to both the public and its membership that it is illegal in Ontario to sell eyewear over the internet. Thats a pretty bold statement.
http://www.coptont.org/PUBLICINFO/in...dispensing.asp
EYEWEAR OVER THE INTERNET IN ONTARIO
IS NOT JUST UNSAFE. IT IS ALSO ILLEGAL.They also advertise to the membership and to the public :
Only Opticians, Optometrists and Ophthalmologists are legally authorized to dispense prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses in Ontario. Don’t trust your eyes to anyone else.
http://www.coptont.org/UNAUTHORIZED/unauthorized.asp
Unauthorized Practice
Under Ontario law, no person other than a Registered Member of the College of Opticians of Ontario or the College of Optometrists of Ontario or the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario are authorized to fit and dispense eye glasses, contact lenses and subnormal vision devices to the public; Opticianry Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 34, s. 9(1). Those persons who are engaged in or who condone Unauthorized Practice place the public in harm’s way and it is important for this College and its Members to do everything possible to protect the public.
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