Competition Bureau recommends bureaucratic power grab over airline industry

A proposed system of parallel reviews aims to disallow anti-competitive mergers or collaborations, but could block transactions that benefit airline passengers and likely reduce investment in the airline sector.
If economies of scale allow large airlines to operate more efficiently than small ones, airline passengers may well be better off when two airlines merge, writes Matthew Lau.

According to the Competition Bureau’s recent market study of Canada’s ...

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