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{
"time": "2024-06-03 11:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Iqwinder Gaheer (Mississauga\u2014Malton, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Iqwinder Gaheer (Mississauga\u2014Malton, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8480920\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Great. Thank you, Chair, and thank you to Mr. Singh for appearing before the committee. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480921\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to cover the overlap between what the government has presented and this bill. Obviously, we passed major competition reforms with Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12569206\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-56/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Competition Act\">C-56</a>. It empowers regulators to hold the companies accountable, and it does stand up for Canadians. We gave more power to the Competition Bureau to conduct more effective investigations. We made it easier to block mergers that are not in the best interest of Canadians and took action against collaborators that stifle competition and reduce consumer choice. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480922\" data-originallang=\"en\">If there were something lacking in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12569206\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-56/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Competition Act\">C-56</a>, I think that was largely covered by Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12739107\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-59/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the fall economic statement tabled in Parliament on November 21, 2023 and certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023\">C-59</a>, whose amendments have resulted in a more modern and effective competition law. Among other things, they help prevent harmful mergers and anti-competitive collaborations, and they hold the large firms accountable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480923\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to talk about your testimony in response to Mr. Badawey's questioning. You talked about how, perhaps, what your bill brings is more of a focus on price-fixing and on penalties, but then I look at Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11719486\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-19/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 7, 2022 and other measures\">C-19</a>, which is from 2022 and says:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8480924\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Division 15 of Part 5 amends the Competition Act to enhance the Commissioner of Competition's investigative powers, criminalize wage fixing and related agreements, increase maximum fines and administrative monetary penalties, clarify that incomplete price disclosure is a false or misleading representation, expand the definition of anti-competitive conduct, allow private access to the Competition Tribunal to remedy an abuse of dominance and improve the effectiveness of the merger notification requirements and other provisions. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8480925\" data-originallang=\"en\">When I look at all these bills in combination, it largely seems that what Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12566932\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-352/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Competition Act and the Competition Tribunal Act\">C-352</a> is proposing is already covered. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480926\" data-originallang=\"en\">What are your comments on that? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8480920\" data-originallang=\"en\">Excellent. Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, et merci \u00e0 M. Singh d'\u00eatre venu t\u00e9moigner devant le Comit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480921\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je souhaite discuter du chevauchement entre ce que le gouvernement a d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 et ce projet de loi. Manifestement, nous avons adopt\u00e9 des r\u00e9formes importantes avec le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"12569206\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-56/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Competition Act\">C\u201156</a>. Il permet aux organismes de r\u00e9glementation de tenir les entreprises responsables de leurs actes, et il d\u00e9fend les droits des Canadiens. Nous avons donn\u00e9 plus de pouvoirs au Bureau de la concurrence afin qu'il m\u00e8ne des enqu\u00eates plus efficaces. Nous avons facilit\u00e9 le blocage des fusions qui ne sont pas dans l'int\u00e9r\u00eat des Canadiens et nous sommes pass\u00e9s \u00e0 l'action contre des collaborations qui \u00e9touffent la concurrence et r\u00e9duisent les choix des consommateurs. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480922\" data-originallang=\"en\"> S'il manquait quelque chose au projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"12569206\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-56/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Competition Act\">C\u201156</a>, \u00e0 mon avis cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 efficacement ajout\u00e9 dans le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"12739107\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-59/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the fall economic statement tabled in Parliament on November 21, 2023 and certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023\">C\u201159</a>, dont les amendements ont r\u00e9sult\u00e9 en une loi sur la concurrence plus moderne et efficace. Entre autres choses, ces amendements aident \u00e0 emp\u00eacher les fusions pr\u00e9judiciables et les collaborations anticoncurrentielles, et ils tiennent les grandes firmes responsables de leurs actes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480923\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J'aimerais parler de votre t\u00e9moignage en r\u00e9ponse aux questions de M. Badawey. Vous avez dit que votre projet de loi met peut-\u00eatre davantage l'accent sur la fixation des prix et les p\u00e9nalit\u00e9s, mais, quand je consulte le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11719486\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-19/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 7, 2022 and other measures\">C\u201119</a>, qui date de 2022, je lis ceci: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8480924\" data-originallang=\"en\"> La section 15 de la partie 5 modifie la Loi sur la concurrence afin de renforcer les pouvoirs d'enqu\u00eate du commissaire de la concurrence, d'\u00e9riger en infraction criminelle la fixation des salaires et les accords connexes, d'augmenter les amendes maximales et les sanctions administratives p\u00e9cuniaires, de pr\u00e9ciser que la divulgation incompl\u00e8te des prix est une indication fausse ou trompeuse, d'\u00e9largir la d\u00e9finition d'agissement anti-concurrentiel, de permettre l'acc\u00e8s priv\u00e9 au Tribunal de la concurrence pour rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 un abus de position dominante et d'am\u00e9liorer l'efficacit\u00e9 des exigences en mati\u00e8re de transactions devant faire l'objet d'un pr\u00e9avis et d'autres dispositions. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8480925\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand je consulte ces projets de loi c\u00f4te\u2011\u00e0\u2011c\u00f4te, il para\u00eet manifeste que ce que le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"12566932\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-352/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Competition Act and the Competition Tribunal Act\">C\u2011352</a> propose est d\u00e9j\u00e0 int\u00e9gr\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8480926\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quels sont vos commentaires \u00e0 ce sujet? </p>"
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