McKinsey contracts, Islamophobia and NDP leader’s backbench bid to strengthen competition tribunal on the agenda
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.