Thank you, Mr. Chair.
NDP-9 expands the Competition Tribunal's remedial authority in cases of refusal to deal. As it's currently drafted, Bill C-59 would allow the tribunal to:
order one or more suppliers of a product, including a means of diagnosis or repair, in a market to accept a person as a customer within a specified time on usual trade terms
The proposed amendment would allow the tribunal to “order one or more suppliers of a product, including a means of diagnosis or repair, in a market to accept a per—”
This is the additional part:
—son as a customer, or to make the means of diagnosis or repair available to a person, within a specified period and on the terms that the Tribunal considers appropriate