Encourage and Enforce Competition

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Submitted by jasonhanley 2010–06–21 02:34:23 EDT

Theme: Digital Infrastructure
Idea Status: +8 | Total Votes: 18 | Comments: 1

We already have the Competition Bureau and Competition Act.

However, anti–competitive mergers and behaviour have been rampant for over a decade, in both the mobile, and broadband sectors.

The Competition Bureau must doing start their job, and make sure companies in these industries compete in a fair and open market.

Comment

Russell McOrmond — 2010–07–08 10:33:32 EDT wrote

I added a related idea, based on your reminder of this area of policy:
Improve Competition Policy, Promotion and Enforcement

In addition, I hope we can remove some of the secrecy with the bureau. Other countries announce when an investigation is under–way. Canada seems more concerned with protecting the reputation of vendors than enabling the additional evidence gathering that having an open process would facilitate.

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