News Summary

• Geoff White is the former executive director and general counsel of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.
• He left PIAC after going months without paying himself in order to keep the organization afloat.
• The organization said it sent a letter to the ministers of industry and heritage about the precarity of public-interest advocacy organizations.
• White spoke at Marketplace's season finale, "What's Wrong with Your Rights?"
• in front of a live studio audience at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto on March 5.
• The finale included high-pressure trivia on consumer rights, an online scavenger hunt using videos to identify AI-generated content and a debate about the state of consumer protection in Canada.