Industry committee  The U.S. and Australia in particular are great examples. Australia in the nineties embarked on a really deep policy dive to increase competition and productivity. Part of that was the creation of a really strong central competition regulator, the ACCC, the Australian Competition

Industry committee  I think the exact same concerns are present in any sort of deal, as you described, and again we have a question there. We are now in a world where the replacement competitor, because of laws that really don't favour mergers being blocked and don't encourage competitors to continu

Industry committee  Do you mean related to the telecom provider?

Industry committee  If that were the case, I would be here saying the exact same thing about Globalive, because, again, the big question is, how does that dependence affect the incentive to compete, and why would Telus and Rogers create a truly disruptive competitor for themselves? I think that's th

Industry committee  My perspective is that the Globalive solution is really not a silver bullet for this. I think the merger should not proceed, and we live in a sort of second-best world. In either case, and as I led with, I would like the minister to try to use the tools he has in order to encoura

Industry committee  It depends. Shaw is a going concern. I saw them as a serious source of competition out west, so I believe that Telus, Bell and Rogers—the oligopoly structure—have an interest in maintaining that structure in whatever form it may come. I think rejecting the deal would keep Shaw in

Industry committee  No, I don't believe so.

Industry committee  Certainly I believe that Globalive's plans for expansion involve a network-sharing agreement with Telus, and I think that is a real question for me. Again, that seems like the kind of dependency that we are similarly worried about with Videotron.

Industry committee  I think there's a concern with the process, and again we go back to the outcome. I go to the bureau not being satisfied. The bureau prefers to negotiate consent agreements and they do that much more often than going to litigation. If I look at the bureau's not accepting Videotro

Industry committee  Thank you so much to the committee for inviting me to speak on this important topic. My name is Keldon Bester. I am a co-founder of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. In the past, I worked as a special adviser a