By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026It's impossible to overstate how *useless* the Competition Bureau was before this bill passed. In its entire history, the Bureau had only challenged *three* mergers, and had *never* successfully challenged a merger. 14/ 1701
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026Canada's do-nothing competition enforcers allowed the company to be captured by Made-in-Canada oligarchs whose ripoffs and abuses would make the Hudson's Bay Company blush: pluralistic.net/2024/12/05/t... 15pluralistic.netPluralistic: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar’s “The Big Fix” (05 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1573
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026If Canada was ever going to be a real country (not just two monopolists and a mining company in a trenchcoat) it *needed* a serious competition enforcer. Nominally, it has one, thanks to 2024's Competition Act. The only problem is Carney, who made sweeping cuts to the Bureau's funding. 16/ 1819
