Our lack of competition means that companies are gouging us for all they can get. When @Rogers, @Bell, and @TELUS are our only options, they can charge as much as they want for connectivity, and we’re left holding the bills. #competitionweek
@Rogers@Bell@TELUS Our cost of living crisis is already dire. From exorbitant cell phone and Internet prices, to unaffordable housing across the country — not to mention our grocery bills that just keep rising — it feels like our economy is failing us, and monopolies are to blame.
When markets have multiple companies competing for customers, prices stay low, small businesses thrive, and providers are encouraged to innovate.
We shouldn’t be at the mercy of monopolies that have gone unchecked for decades.
With reformed competition laws, our government is able to actually protect us from abuse of dominance, instead of standing by while the rich get richer.
BREAKING: Bill C-11 passed by House of Commons, ignoring concerns of regulating everyday Canadians [THREAD]
The House of Commons just undid all the hard work of the Senate, ignoring a key amendment to C-11 that would have accomplished the purpose of the bill while excluding user-generated content.
The Bill will now move back to the Senate, after the House disregarded Canadians’ concerns that individual uploads may be treated and regulated as broadcasting under C-11. Unfortunately, Bill C-11 is just as damaging now as it was a year ago.
Mergers like Rogers-Shaw aren’t our only problem. We need the @CompBureau to be able to not only stop monopolies from growing any bigger, but to rein in the existing monopolies that control our markets. [THREAD] #competitionweek
Bell, Rogers, and Telus’ unwillingness to buy in to the TTC network is a matter of life or death. The infrastructure is there, but their own corporate greed is the only reason they haven't signed on.
This is a matter of public safety and security. When there are network outages (ahem @Rogers), the #1 concern is how to contact emergency services. And yet Torontonians are taking that risk every day just to ride public transit.
It’s not as complicated as Big Telecom would like you to believe. They demand to have their own networks, but refuse to build them, which leaves Canadians at risk every single day.
For far too long, our Competition Bureau has been ill equipped to protect us from monopoly abuse. How does Canada’s competition regulator differ from our global peers? [THREAD] #competitionweek
Unlike in other countries, our Bureau cannot proactively study markets to better regulate monopolies. Most of the Competition Bureau’s activity happens in the dark. There’s no way for everyday Canadians to find out what markets and corporations are being investigated.
How can we put our trust in a regulator that operates with no transparency? That’s why we need competition reform.
Today we’re launching an URGENT action calling on MPs to vote against @s_guilbeault's Bill C-10 - the most serious attack on freedom of expression online in Canada we’ve seen in years, and a genuine Internet emergency: action.openmedia.org/page/81358/act…
Last Friday, the federal government shocked experts and the public by removing exemptions for user content from C-10, bringing every video, audio clip and picture that people in Canada upload to online platforms under the broadcast regulation of the CRTC: thestar.com/politics/feder…
What does that mean? It means giving the CRTC breathtakingly broad powers to remove, censor, hide, tax and otherwise interfere with the audiovisual content that makes the modern Internet what it is. See @mgeist’s analysis here: michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/guilbe…