"This junk was marketed as a safe savings product," complained Layne Arthur, a former farmer, in a letter to the governor of the Bank of Canada.
Mr. Ward, who runs the jewelry and aviation products business, complained bitterly that eBay no longer let him include a link to his Web site.
Consumers also depend a lot on companies for supplying green products, and complained that most decisions taken by companies don't consider neither the environment, nor consumer wishes.
Workers making Ivanka Trump-branded products have complained of union intimidation, subsistence wages, long, exhausting hours, verbal abuse and sporadic compensation for overtime work, The Post and The Guardian reported last year. .
In 2005, Bill Brougher, a Google product manager, complained that typing the phrase "teak patio Palo Alto" didn't return a local store called the Teak Patio.
While not everyone appreciates the strategy of appropriating Canadian culture — "I find it as cheap and disingenuous as putting a naked woman on a product," someone complained on Reddit not long ago — a recent Ipsos Reid survey found that Tim Hortons ranked sixth on a list of the most influential brands in Canada, and was the top-ranked Canadian brand.
A lobbyist for wood-product manufacturers complained about the "ever-tightening" public health standards for ozone pollution and asked regulators to change the permitting process.
But the federal government still charges taxes on these basic products, he complains.
Some consumer products companies complain that they are being punished for the excesses of the technology industry.
When it was reported last summer that some Copenhagen kindergartens, in consultation with parents, had stopped serving pork products, the DPP complained of discrimination against Danish food culture.
