The complaints come after Health Canada on May 1 imposed a new testing regime for window blinds to determine whether the products might be harmful to young children. Regulators in recent years have clamped down on cord-operated window coverings following numerous incidents in which toddlers or young children have strangled themselves in the braided nylon loops, sometimes causing death.
Big box stores including Home Depot, Lowe’s Canada, and Montreal-based home décor retailer Bouclair have also called on the federal government to make changes. Home Depot, Vasami said, estimates the policy change on window coverings will cost them between $1 million and $2 million per store across their roughly 180 storefronts.
U.S. regulators in 2018 outlawed corded blinds over safety concerns, prompting regulators in various other countries to follow suite. Window coverings sold in many countries, including Canada, are now required to be operated by a wand rather than a string, unless purchased through custom retailers.
So instead of telling dumbass kids to not mess around with the blinds we have a nanny state government telling blind makers to change their behaviour to help the dumbass kids. Makes perfect sense.
Let’s draw the curtains to shed some light on the situation.
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