Every state has occupational licensing laws or regulations, which require individuals seeking to offer a certain service to the public first to obtain approval from the state. Occupational licensing requirements historically derive from a desire to protect unwitting consumers from bad actors. In...

This comment is submitted in response to the Canadian Competition Bureau's White Paper entitled “Big Data and Innovation: Implications for Competition Policy in Canada.” The Global Antitrust Institute's Competition Advocacy Program commends the Bureau's conclusion that existing competition...