

More transparency needed in funeral industry; new legislation needs to go further to protect consum
With the funeral industry’s growing focus on upselling bereaved families, we are happy to see the Province of Manitoba expects to introduce new legislation this fall to strengthen consumer protection rules around pre-arranged funerals (Province probes pre-arranged funerals, July 9, 2015 Winnipeg Free Press). That is an important step forward, but we feel the legislation isn’t going far enough to reform the regulations that govern the industry. One of the biggest problems faci