Consumer-led Banking Act   in the banking sector. It is clear that Canadians deserve a secure and stable financial sector that is globally competitive, promotes consumer choice and contributes to economic growth. As the financial sector becomes increasingly digitized, standards must be used to modernize, ensuring

Petitions   at making will cause consumer prices to rise significantly and consumer choice to decline drastically when inflation is at an all-time high and access to health care is at an all-time low. Health Canada recently proposed new and significant fees to import, manufacture and sell NHPs

Carbon Pricing   they buy their groceries. We also amended the Competition Act to empower the Competition Bureau to block collaborations that stifle competition and consumer choice, particularly in situations where large grocers prevent smaller competitors from establishing operations nearby

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023   C-56, we would help stabilize prices and improve consumer choice. This includes supporting Canadians' right to repair; further modernizing merger reviews; enhancing protections for consumers, workers and the environment, including improving the focus on worker impacts

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56   allow the Competition Bureau to conduct in-depth market studies, eliminate the efficiencies argument to stop anti-competitive mergers and take measures to block collaboration efforts that undermine competition and consumer choice, especially those that put small competitors

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  ? What effect will this have on consumer choice and prices in rural areas, where often the only place people can buy many products is from a small business? Despite all that, the government is doing absolutely nothing. Earlier, I had a phone conversation with a produce grower in my

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56   prices and have fewer choices; and three, empower the bureau to take action against collaborations that stifle competition and consumer choice, in particular in situations where large grocers prevent smaller grocers from establishing operations nearby. Bill C-56 builds on other

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C‑56   offset the harm to competition, even when Canadian consumers would pay a higher price and have fewer choices; and empower the bureau to take action against collaborations that stifle competition and consumer choice, in particular in situations where large grocers prevent smaller

Business of Supply   up driving up prices and limiting consumer choice here, in Canada. These amendments would also allow the bureau to block collaboration efforts that undermine competition and consumer choice, for example, when major grocery chains prevent SMEs, their smallest competitors, from

Copyright Act  -approved, monopolistic authorized agent from the manufacturer. The Copyright Act has become a government-legislated gatekeeper harming consumer choice. It was not intended to be this way. As I mentioned previously, being able to reap the financial rewards of one's own invention

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   housing and amend the Competition Act to get rid of the efficiencies defence, which has been a handy loophole that has been used to let almost any corporate merger go ahead, no matter what it would do to consumer choice. I want to talk mostly about the housing portion of this. We

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   collaborations that restrain competition and consumer choice, in particular in situations where the larger grocery store chains prevent smaller competitors from establishing operations nearby. The government is taking concrete steps to help stabilize food prices and improve competition

Petitions   of their proactive health care. According to petitioners, these regulations will cause consumer prices to rise significantly and consumer choices to decline drastically, and that is a major concern. The petition calls on the Minister of Health to work with the industry to accurately reflect

Business of Supply   the Competition Bureau to block collaborations that stifle competition and consumer choice, particularly in situations where large grocers prevent smaller competitors from establishing operations nearby. By making these changes, we will empower the Competition Bureau to investigate price

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   and have fewer choices; and empower the Competition Bureau to take action against collaborations that stifle competition and consumer choice, in particular situations where large grocers prevent smaller competitors from establishing operations nearby. Our Deputy Prime Minister