Canada's compute market is dominated by American hyperscalers, risking competition and sovereignty. But swapping foreign monopolies for domestic ones is no solution.
Check out CAMP's new report, Parting Clouds, on what the right path forward looks like
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4 years into Canada's cost-of-living crisis, grocery bills are still climbing and global disruptions mean more is on the way.
Canadians need grocery markets that work for them. In a new brief, CAMP lays out what governments at all levels can do about it🛒
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Payouts from the Great Bread Price-Fixing Scandal have started to go out, but as @KeldonB from the @monopolyproject explains, the secretive case is ongoing and far from over:
CUSMA should not give Big Tech a backdoor veto over Canadian digital policy.
CAMP’s new brief argues Canada should remove restrictive digital trade rules that limit competition policy, privacy protections, data sovereignty, and platform accountability.
https://t.co/viNaMm6SZ8
For nearly two decades, Canadians have paid more for packaged bread products because of a long-running price fixing arrangement. The new class action settlement offers compensation, but it also reveals how hidden coordination can distort everyday markets. #AntiMonopoly#CdnPoli
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We're delighted that Piers will be bringing his expertise and efforts to CAMP, as we work to address monopoly power and make Canada's economy more democratic, resilient, and fair. Learn more about our team at https://t.co/7uGOOP6dp6
Piers' research focuses on differing understandings of progress within different approaches to antitrust policy, spanning a wide variety of topics, including psychedelic therapy, emergency powers, and the effect of communication systems on ideology formation and nationalism.
Today, Piers writes about ways to connect antimonopoly policy to larger debates in political philosophy, including republicanism and liberalism. His work on antimonopoly issues has appeared in the journal American Political Thought and Policy Options.
We're pleased to announce that Piers Eaton will be joining our team as a CAMP fellow.
Piers is a PhD candidate in political studies and a lecturer at the University of Ottawa. He previously studied at Durham University and the University of St Andrews.
Over the years, Amazon has quietly snapped up more than a hundred companies—from Whole Foods to MGM to Twitch—expanding its reach into groceries, Hollywood, self-driving cars, and even healthcare.
Additionally, Canada's Competition Bureau is currently investigating Amazon’s conduct on its Canadian online marketplace to determine if the company is engaging in conduct that may constitute an abuse of dominance under the Competition Act.