If there’s one thing Canadians agree on, it’s that Canada’s wireless industry can and should be more competitive. The federal government is on side with the policy objective of having four carriers in every region and has responded with policies that provide commercial advantages to...

G.W.F. Hegel has been interpreted as a staunch critic of classical liberal “atomism”. This paper challenges this view by arguing that Hegel owed a great deal to John Locke's analysis of the normative ground and design of modern commercial society. Following Locke, Hegel located the basis for...

We examine the effect of a capacity constraint on the profits of a durable goods monopoly (DGM) in a two-period model when rationing is efficient. For sufficiently high discount factors, output rises through time without a constraint and a constraint increases the DGM profits: it restricts...

This report is a survey and compilation of the data available that documents three aspects of residential telecommunications services in Canada. The two residential telecommunication services are local telephony (primary exchange services) and high speed internet access (broadband). The data...

This paper documents the successful, if lamentable, rise of a made-in-Canada essential facilities doctrine. This made-in-Canada essential facilities doctrine is a consequence of recent enforcement of the abuse of dominance provisions of the Competition Act in the Toronto Real Estate Board case....