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Anita Banicevic Discusses Competition Bureau’s Call-out for Anticompetitive Conduct with Financial Post
The Financial Post recently featured Anita Banicevic’s insights on the Competition Bureau’s call for complaints concerning anticompetitive conduct in the digital economy.
In the article, Anita explains that the Bureau “is looking to collect information and understand facts to determine whether increased concentration is truly occurring,” adding that “it’s also looking to see whether it should take enforcement actions and beyond that, a fairly open call for complaints on which to base such actions.”
Noting that the Bureau has “always been driven by complaints to a significant degree” and “does have the ability and resources to weed out the genuine complaints” from those that are not meritorious, Anita still finds the call-out disquieting. “I remain concerned that the call for complaints is essentially a matter of looking for issues,” she says.
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