Ontario politicians push for cap on ticket resale prices after scalpers go crazy with Blue Jays prices

The Toronto Blue Jays open up the 2025 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers tomorrow night and if you want a seat at Rogers Centre (SkyDome) for Game 1, you'll have ot buck up potentially thousands of dollars.

Tickets for all four scheduled home games in Toronto sold out in 30 seconds on Tuesday and are now selling for as much as $15,000 online.

“They’re gouging the people,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters during a scrum at Queen’s Park Wednesday. “When you have one player in the market that controls the tickets, that’s not right for the people. So we’re actually right now considering legislation.”

After the Blue Jays released a limited number of general admission standing tickets Wednesday for around $345 each, they sold out in minutes, only for those tickets to quickly reappear for sale on Ticketmaster and other sites for around $1,200.

“I just don’t believe in one company controlling everything, and that’s what’s happening right now with Ticketmaster, in my opinion,” Ford said.

Ironically, in 2019 the Ford government scrapped a law that would capped ticket resale prices at 50 per cent above the original face value, calling it “unenforceable.” Now that the cost of tickets seems to be a hot button issue, Ford and his cronies are back on the case...

Modern politics in a nut shell: They don't really care, they just care that you think they care.