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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026

Canada'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... 15

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Pluralistic: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar’s “The Big Fix” (05 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026

If 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026

Thanks to Carney, Canada has a Competition Bureau with all the powers it needs to save Canada from its oligarchs - but it can't afford to *do* any of that stuff. 17/

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