If Carney wants to drive investment in Canada, competition is the way
Keldon Bester, Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, argues that Canada’s productivity slump will not be solved by tax incentives alone. Driving real investment will require stronger competition for markets and workers, including opening concentrated sectors, breaking down incumbent barriers, and creating the wage pressure that pushes firms to invest in productivity.
Canada Already Has the Tools to Stop Surveillance Pricing
Emily Osborne, Fellow at the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, argues that Canada already has the legal tools to prohibit surveillance pricing, but lacks the political will to apply them across the economy.
Don’t fall for the senior’s discount surveillance pricing head fake
CAMP fellow Andrew Paulley lays out the case for distinguishing between surveillance pricing and the discounts Canadians know and love.
Cutting red tape won’t defeat Canada’s monopolies. Here’s what will.
In an opinion piece for Corporate Knights, CAMP executive director Keldon Bester shows that while the federal government is pointed in the right direction on competition, proposals for plans now need to be met with action to deliver affordability and productivity for Canadians.
Big Loblaw stretches its tentacles, on track to become Canada’s grocery landlord
In an opinion piece for The Globe and Mail, CAMP fellow Rachel Wasserman and CAMP executive director Keldon Bester show how a commercial real estate transaction could harm grocery competition in Canada.
Surveillance pricing is everybody’s problem
In an opinion piece for iPolitics, CAMP fellow Emily Osborne and CAMP advisory board member Vass Bednar lay out the harms of surveillance pricing to Canadians