Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. As my colleague told you, political issues or matters concerning the Competition Act do not come under the Competition Bureau's mandate. We are satisfied with the current provisions of the Competition Act, and the department handles those aspects. We

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for your question. Allow me to continue in English. The Competition Bureau, in addition to the sections that my colleague spoke about, also has what we call a section for false or misleading representation. When I talk about representation here, I mean mark

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct. I'll continue my answer. Really, it is about the misleading advertising provisions. We encourage companies to be clear, but the biggest thing is to not mislead. You cannot tell consumers that you are going to do one thing and then do another. Really, the competit

Information & Ethics committee  The big thing with the commission is just ensuring that the representation made to the customer is truthful. That is really the core of the law here. Certainly, if that secondary company at any point makes a representation to consumers, they absolutely have to ensure that it is t

Industry committee  We start our investigations in a number of ways, but speaking with our international counterparts is certainly among the ways we use to determine whether we should begin investigating certain issues.

Industry committee  I think we know that products and services are getting more global all the time and to us it underscores the need to work together.

Industry committee  That's right. The bureau reached a consent agreement with a number of parties. Under the court system and under the law, a third party who has potentially been affected by a consent agreement can challenge, which is what happened in this case. That has now all been resolved, so t

Industry committee  There's a public consent agreement available on the Competition Tribunal website with Apple and the Competition Bureau that outlines all of those details.

Industry committee  As I mentioned before, Canada does have both civil and criminal provisions in its act. In terms of things like deceptive marketing and abuse of dominance, we do have quite strong provisions already, even if they are not identical to those of our counterparts. Obviously, the chang

Industry committee  The laws in Canada that we enforce don't often name specific types of conduct. We tend to have laws that are broader, for example, against deceptive marketing, against abuse of dominance. I think I described them a bit earlier, so you have a sense of what they cover. The idea is

Industry committee  As I said before, the Competition Bureau doesn't hold the policy function with respect to its laws. The department would be the one to speak to you. I'm not in a position to comment on that.

Industry committee  As I mentioned previously, we keep information, including complaints, confidential. We are a law enforcement agency, so we conduct our work in confidentiality. That's written into our act and that's also our procedure. We do that to maintain the integrity of our investigations un

Industry committee  That's right. I can't speak to the CRTC, but I can say that the bureau itself is a law enforcement agency. We work with confidentiality.

Industry committee  Part of what I will do is provide you with the link to our fintech report for a bit more detail. The budget spoke about looking at things like open banking and spoke to fintech more generally. That is what I was referring to. Fintech to us is a really important topic, as it's s

Industry committee  That's right. The suggestions are provided broadly, and really what we want to make sure is that there are both enough regulations, such that people are comfortable using this kind of new technology, but not so much that we're chilling potential innovation. Really, the report is