Thank you. Yes, I was going to say, in response to the comments that were made, that the 30% cut that you alluded to is everywhere—it's Uber, Apple, Google. It's the usual commission for anything that goes on the platforms.
The reason we're more aggressively against platforms—and we see this worldwide—is that there's a feeling that their innovativeness has peaked. When you look at the documents emanating from all the authorities, they all said, “We love these firms” in the 2000s, but now they're no longer doing what they used to do. They're not the same firms. The situation that you see, that you were alluding to, with the fines and the size of the fines, I can tell you, from being close to people in practice everywhere, that the firms are essentially now dedicating their platforms' massive resources to litigating just about anything they can litigate. It's very difficult for the enforcement authorities. Not just our Competition Bureau but also the European Commission is having a hard time, even if it can impose billions of dollars or billions of euros in fines.
You mentioned in your remarks the problem that there's so much market power amassed in it that it enables the firms to raise prices. That's a general problem. We've been relatively lax—actually, too lax—in merger control over the past decades, and we have markets everywhere that are fairly concentrated. When they're fairly concentrated, then firms don't have to talk. They don't have to sit in a restaurant and agree on their conduct. They just pick out the signals. When there are only two or three other firms on the market, they can easily read what's going on and then they stick at the same level.
When DoorDash comes into a market and Uber is already there, they know how Uber works, and they know what Uber charges. They just charge the same. Why should they bother? It's very hard to fight this. None of the competition laws around the world have a good grip on this, but the immediate solutions are to strengthen merger control and then to have discoordination among the firms. It's easier when the markets are concentrated, but it's still not automatic. Usually the firms have to do something, so exchange information and communicate, and you have to go after these practices. For this, as well, we need to have legislation that is fairly broad that allows the bureau to find the problems.