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Marketplace
Market place is a Canadian television series. The series is currently a consumer-advocacy newsmagazine, that shows investigative reports on problems such as product testing, health and safety business methods and news issues of interest for product and service consumers.
The program was influential in the banning of urea formaldehyde foam insulation and yard darts from Canada, the legislation of warnings on exploding pop bottles, successful prosecution of retailers such as false advertisements, new standards for bottled drinking and water fountains, new regulations to produce children's sleepwear less flammable, and also the implementation of safer designs for toddlers.
Market-place was originally hosted by Joan Watson and George Finstad. Hosts have included Jim Nunn, Harry Brown, Norma Kent, Jacquie Perrin, Christine Johnson, Bill Paul and Wendy Mesley. The current hosts of the program are Tom Harrington and Erica Johnson.
Early seasons of the series needed a theme song,"The Consumer", that has been written and played by Stompin' Tom Connors. Every episode would begin with Connors singing.