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{
"time": "2022-09-26 12:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. John Pecman",
"fr": "M. John Pecman"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7319033\" data-originallang=\"en\">Again, it seems to be a very narrow, sectoral issue that I would commend to the Competition Bureau to study through a market study, followed by recommendations, as opposed to a more high-level approach. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7319034\" data-originallang=\"en\">We've dealt with credit card issues in the past at the bureau. As you may know, an order was imposed on Interac for debit cards and debit fees which imposed very low rates, and that was a result of the good work that was done by the Competition Bureau. If there is some anti-competitive behaviour behind those high rates, again, that would be something the bureau would take on with its enforcement mandate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7319035\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would suggest that it might be worthy of a market study, and recommendations could be given to the government to change rules, with Finance Canada or whomever, to allow for a more competitive market, which could perhaps lower fees for small businesses.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7319036\" data-originallang=\"en\">It's not just the domestic issue. Unfortunately, credit card rates, fees, are high for merchants around the world, but I'm sure that a study could help with some ideas, because it's not clear what the answer is. Following one of our cases dealing with credit card rates at the Competition Tribunal, they said that maybe this is an area for regulation, because market forces just don't work properly.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7319033\" data-originallang=\"en\">Encore l\u00e0, cela semble \u00eatre une question tr\u00e8s restreinte, un probl\u00e8me sectoriel que je recommanderais au Bureau de la concurrence d'examiner dans le cadre d'une \u00e9tude de march\u00e9, qui serait suivie de recommandations, plut\u00f4t que d'adopter une approche globale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7319034\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons abord\u00e9 les probl\u00e8mes li\u00e9s aux cartes de cr\u00e9dit dans le pass\u00e9 au Bureau. Comme vous le savez sans doute, une ordonnance a \u00e9t\u00e9 impos\u00e9e \u00e0 Interac pour les cartes et frais de d\u00e9bit qui imposaient des taux tr\u00e8s bas, et c'est le fruit du bon travail qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 effectu\u00e9 par le Bureau de la concurrence. S'il y a un comportement anticoncurrentiel derri\u00e8re ces taux \u00e9lev\u00e9s, encore une fois, le Bureau s'en occuperait dans le cadre de son mandat d'application.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7319035\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je dirais qu'il pourrait \u00eatre utile de r\u00e9aliser une \u00e9tude de march\u00e9, et des recommandations pourraient \u00eatre formul\u00e9es au gouvernement pour changer les r\u00e8gles, en collaboration avec le minist\u00e8re des Finances ou peu importe, afin de pouvoir avoir un march\u00e9 plus concurrentiel, qui pourrait peut-\u00eatre r\u00e9duire les frais pour les petites entreprises.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7319036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce n'est pas seulement un probl\u00e8me national. Malheureusement, les taux des cartes de cr\u00e9dit sont \u00e9lev\u00e9s pour les commer\u00e7ants dans le monde entier, mais je suis certain qu'une \u00e9tude pourrait contribuer \u00e0 trouver des id\u00e9es, car on ignore quelle est la solution. \u00c0 la suite d'un de nos cas pour traiter la question des taux des cartes de cr\u00e9dit au Tribunal de la concurrence, on a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu'il s'agissait peut-\u00eatre d'une question pouvant \u00eatre r\u00e9gl\u00e9e par l'entremise d'une r\u00e9glementation, car les forces du march\u00e9 ne fonctionnent tout simplement pas correctement. </p>"
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