Industry committee  I think from our perspective it indicated that there would be a disproportionate impact on lower-income Canadians. We looked at the transfer of wealth emanating from this transaction, so it was about who was going to suffer and who was going to gain. For that, we looked at Statis

Industry committee  We received 7,800 submissions from Canadians. We looked at each and every one of them and evaluated them—not so much for the views but for the facts they contained—to get the views of Canadians on what the impact of this transaction would be. Our focus was not on their opinions.

Industry committee  I would have to go back and get the real numbers to see how many were in favour of the merger versus not. However, I'm quite comfortable saying that the vast majority of consumers were concerned about the proposed transaction.

Industry committee  I'll talk about it under our framework. What we're looking at under the Competition Act is harm to the competitive process. We believe the benefits of the competitive process flow through to consumers in lower prices, greater innovation and greater quality. Our focus isn't neces

Industry committee  Normally we conduct our investigation, and that informs the scope of the anti-competitive effects we need to address. In this particular case, we went through our exhaustive investigation. We identified the magnitude and scope of those anti-competitive effects, and we communicate

Industry committee  We did not. We did not approve the remedy package, which would include the buyer.

Industry committee  Well, I think our position on this is clear: It ought to have been evaluated as a remedy under our framework. The concerns we had with the remedy proposed included that there weren't sufficient assets being divested with the Freedom business to allow them to compete on a similar

Industry committee  Well, we are a law enforcement agency, so our job is to investigate. The commissioner, if he sees a problem and cannot resolve it, has to bring a case before the Competition Tribunal. That is our framework. Our job is to investigate and see if we can come to a negotiated resoluti

Industry committee  We were aware. At the time, in the lead-up to our application—and this is set out in both our notice of application and the injunction materials we filed before the tribunal—there were a couple of remedy proposals that we evaluated in accordance with our remedies guidance. In tho

Industry committee  We will evaluate what the parties bring to us in terms of a negotiated resolution, but part of that evaluation.... If the assets are there and we think there's a viable operating business that will address the SLC, we move to looking at the buyer. If the buyer itself raises comp

Industry committee  It's our framework. The way we look at it is in accordance with the framework under the Competition Act. We evaluated the Rogers-Shaw transaction. Our investigation determined that the transaction itself was going to substantially lessen competition. We brought an application t

Industry committee  I'll answer you in English, if I may, because I need to use technical terms. Whenever competitors come to us in investigations, we are skeptical. We look at the evidence. We look at the underlying documents. We look at the incentives and the ability to compete. We have a degree

Industry committee  I would say that we brought this case. We conducted an exhaustive investigation. We found that the proposed merger between Rogers and Shaw was likely to substantially lessen competition in Alberta and British Columbia. We subsequently looked at the divestiture of the Freedom ass

Industry committee  Maybe I can speak to the tribunal's decision. The tribunal's decision did not include an order that would enforce any such commitments.

Industry committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Jeanne Pratt, and I am the senior deputy commissioner of the Mergers and Monopolistic Practices Branch. With me today is my colleague, Anthony Durocher, who is the deputy commissioner of the Competition Promotion B