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Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance

Programs that ensure that physical spaces (including buildings, parking lots, sidewalks, parks and other areas that are used by the public) are safe and free from obstacles which prevent access by people who have disabilities; that technologies (including software applications and operating systems, Web based information and applications, telecommunications products, video and multimedia products, and commercial products such as information kiosks, calculators and fax machines) have features which support accessibility; and that enhancements which improve accessibility are implemented wherever possible. Compliance is addressed by various aspects of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Employment Equity Act, in addition to any applicable provincial legislation such as the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

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Banking Regulation

Programs that are responsible for granting charters to and examining the operation and activities of national banks, credit unions, bank holding companies and foreign banks that wish to open branches in Canada.

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Cannabis Regulation

Programs whose mandate is to enforce laws regulating the testing, manufacturing, distribution, sale and consumption of cannabis products including marijuana, hashish, hash oil, edible forms of cannabis and other derivatives as well as synthetic products such as K2/Spice that people might use as an alternative to cannabis.

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Consumer Disclosure Laws

Programs that enforce the laws that protect the consumer from deceit or fraud in the marketplace by requiring that the parties to a transaction reveal all facts which are essential to an intelligent assessment of that transaction and to providing informed consent.

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Public Utility Regulation/Deregulation

Programs that establish and enforce regulations that govern the rates and services of utility companies and/or provide information about utility deregulation.

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The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.


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