Moose, Maple Syrup and Monopolies: Is Canada Finally Taking on Its Oligarchs?
Canada is a country that most outsiders think of as polite and well-run, with a national health care service, friendly, and competent. But up close, living here, it’s really a nation of monopolies and oligarchs.
Writing for Matt Stoller's BIG Newsletter, CAMP Executive Director Keldon Bester lays out Canada's monopoly problem and the steps government is taking to turn the tide on concentrated corporate power.
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The future of competition law in Canada
CBA National
“The one that has the biggest opportunity to change the future of competition law going forward is opening up meaningful private access including damages to deter anti-competitive conduct, de-centralizing enforcement, keeping the Bureau prominent, but allowing individual companies to bring suits,” Bester says. “The Bureau can’t be everywhere, and the Bureau brings its own institutional thinking to how it approaches the law, so de-centralizing that is very important.”
Northeastern Ontario mobile customers frustrated by lack of choice and rising costs
CBC News
“Customers shouldn’t have to be pursuing regulators and the big companies for relief, says Keldon Bester, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project.”
Switch carriers? How? Ottawa gives mixed messages over rising mobile prices
CBC News
““As opposed to companies fighting for customers, it’s customers hunting around for the best deal in a not-that-great marketplace.””
Federal government was wise to reappoint Matthew Boswell as Commissioner of Competition
Canada’s competition law undergoes an important transition from stagnation to rejuvenation, it is welcome news that the government has reappointed Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell for an additional two years.
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