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Report of the C.D. Howe Institute Competition Policy Council The federal government should create an independent oversight body for Canada’s Competition Bureau to periodically evaluate the Bureau’s performance and help define its strategic objectives. This is the consensus view of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council, which held its tenth meeting on October 22, 2015.

Report of the C.D. Howe Institute Competition Policy Council The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Tervita Corp. v. Canada may make merger challenges by the Commissioner of Competition less likely than before to succeed. This is the consensus view of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Competition Policy Council, which held its ninth meeting on April 22, 2015. The Competition Policy…

Financial regulators should better balance the goal of creating stable markets with the need for allocative efficiency, the key contributor to the growth of the economy and Canadians’ income, according to former Governor of the Bank of Canada, David Dodge. In “Financial Regulation and Efficiency: Tradeoffs in the Post-Financial Crisis Era,” Dodge warns that Canada is being dragged along by…