E06: What kind of competition do I want? and some updates

Today's episode is slightly different than usual. In today's episode I provide updates on some amendments to the Competition Act introduced in this year's Federal Budget, provide a short update on the Rogers/Shaw merger, and introduce the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project (CAMP) which I'm a founding member of. Finally I circle to an article I wrote about the type of competition our Competition Laws should foster and protect - tl dr; it's not competition like sports, it's the competition that makes an ecosystem stronger and keeps it in balance.

Show Notes

Today's episode is slightly different than usual. In today's episode I provide updates on some amendments to the Competition Act introduced in this year's Federal Budget, provide a short update on the Rogers/Shaw merger, and introduce the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project (CAMP) which I'm a founding member of.

Finally I circle back to an article I wrote about the type of competition our Competition Laws should foster and protect - tl dr; it's not competition like sports where you compete for the sake of competing. It's the competition that makes an ecosystem, like a forest, stronger and keeps the whole forest in balance. A forest that is in balance is healthy, and a forest that is out of balance is unhealthy. We are living in a time that is out of balance, and our communities are weaker because of that.

Other links from today's episode:

• Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project  
• Robin Shaban on Twitter
• Keldon Bester on Twitter
• Canada's Budget 2022 Offers Competition Reforms, but the Real Fight Lies Ahead, by Keldon Bester
• Canadian Competition Act Reform: First Round of Significant Amendments, by Beth Riley, Alysha Pannu, Christina Skinner, Randy Hughes, Melanie Aitken, Emrys Davis
• Rapid passage of Competition Act amendments through Budget Implementation Act process can cause more harm than good, by John Pecman
• First round of proposed amendments to the Competition Act revealed, by Shuli Rodal, Michelle Lally, Christoper Naudie, Kaeleigh Kuzma, Gajan Sathananthan, Danielle Chu, Chelsea Rubin, Reba Nauth
• Schedule for Rogers Shaw hearings
• Last paragraph of the Competition Bureau's submission regarding the Rogers/Shaw merger
• Competition Bureau's reply to Rogers filings
• What exactly are we competing for?, by Andrew Cameron

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