Justice minister doubles down on not letting water treatment company sell on P.E.I. [Video]

P.E.I.’s justice minister has endorsed a regulator’s decision stripping a water treatment sales company of its licence to operate in the province — in a document that gives even more detail about how salespeople coerced vulnerable customers into signing expensive long-term contracts which at least some of them did not need.

The 13-page decision from Bloyce Thompson, P.E.I.’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Public Safety, was sent on April 2 to lawyers acting for Atlantic Environmental Systems Inc., operating as Maritime Home Services. 

“I find that it is in public interest to cancel the appellant’s vendor licence and the licences of all salespeople acting on behalf of the appellant,” Thompson wrote. 

The decision notes that more than 100 people were licensed to conduct direct selling on behalf of the company.

Michael Daniel Goldman is listed in Nova Scotia as the sole director and president of the company. 

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