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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.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell
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
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Alexa Gendron-O'Donnell