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"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."

"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."

"As opposed to companies fighting for customers, it's customers hunting around for the best deal in a not-that-great marketplace."

Under Mr. Boswell’s leadership, the bureau broke with tradition by submitting a public and extensive list of recommendations on competition law reform this past March, said Robin Shaban, co-founder and chair of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project.