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.
This Ontario man bought the same car as his wife and has a flawless driving record. Why is his insurance $649 more?
Speaking to the issue of surveillance pricing, CAMP fellow Andrew Paulley talks to the Toronto Star on how insurance companies use their data advantage to charge different prices to the same kinds of consumers.