I’ve had a couple of opinion pieces come out over the last couple of months in Canada’s National Post newspaper dealing with competition and Big Tech. They can be accessed here:
- Opinion: We need to get beyond the status quo in regulating Big Tech in Canada (10 January 2022)
- Opinion: Big Tech poses challenges our outdated competition laws were not designed to address (29 November 2021)
There’s an interesting public debate going on right now in Canada around whether the government needs to introduce new competition laws/policies to deal with Big Tech. On one side are commentators who think the status quo is fine and nothing needs changing; on the other side (where I sit), there are a group of people who that think that current laws and regulations are just not able to deal with the fundamental differences with Big Tech.