Rogers outage another reason to get rid of Canada’s efficiencies defence in competition law

The failure of the system highlights the critical need for resilience in key infrastructure in an economic environment that has prized efficiency above all else for decades.
In February, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced a review of the Canada’s Competition Act. Canada's competition law privileges mergers that reduce redundancies that might improve resilience in key areas of our economy, even if these mergers harm consumers in the process, write Robin Shaban and Keldon Bester.
On the morning of July 8, Canadians woke up to the consequences of monopoly. Rogers’ nationwide wireless and wireline networks had gone down, which meant not only was a third of the country in the dark when it came to connectivity, but also core payment infrastructure relying on the same network w...

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