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Robin Shaban is principal at Vivic Research, an economic consulting firm that provides data-driven research for policy makers and advocates.
Rogers and Shaw issued a joint communique on Monday announcing their intent to merge, a deal totalling $26-billion, including debt. The two companies also claim the merger will create $1-billion a year in synergies within
two years after it
is finalized.
Their synergies claim is interesting because, if upheld, it will severely hamper the Competition Bureau’s ability to take meaningful action to protect competition in the industry, further contributing to the high prices Canadians pay for telecommunications services. The core problem is Canada’s so-called efficiencies defence for mergers, contained in Section 96 of the Competition Act.
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Taken altogether, US President-elect Joe Bidenâs cabinet is a decidedly mixed bag that has left many Democrats confused as to whether the new administration will really challenge an entrenched economic and political system, or revert to the complacency of the Clinton and Obama years that helped deliver the White House to Donald Trump.
As Bidenâs picks have been trotted out, even while the outgoing President Donald Trump continues to challenge Bidenâs historic and resounding victory, the picture has only gotten fuzzier.
Some are familiar faces popping up in strange places. Former national security adviser and United Nations ambassador Susan Rice, who built her entire career on foreign policy, is to be chief domestic policy adviser. Denis McDonough, who has never served in the military, will head Veterans Affairs. And a recently retired US Army general, Lloyd Austin, has been nominated to run a Defence Department meant to be led by civilians.