Day: June 10, 2024

Industry and technology members go over the fine print of New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh’s backbench bid to boost the power of the federal competition bureau and tribunal to investigate — and, in some cases, intervene in — allegations of price-fixing and other “anti-competitive activities,” particularly, although not exclusively, those involving the grocery sector, with Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project executive director Keldon Bester, OpenMedia executive director Matthew Hatfield and a panel of academics.

“If we’d had these rules in place for the grocery study, we could have had a product by produce look at the margins, potentially,” said Bester. “In other jurisdictions, these market studies have formed the basis for real change.”