Digital technologies are reshaping markets in many profound ways and these changes are creating new challenges for competition authorities. As Canada looks ahead to a consultation on the modernization of the Competition Act, now is the right time to discuss why competition matters, why the Bureau and the Competition Act are critical to our economic recovery, and how today’s digital marketplace is disrupting and reshaping our economy. These and other questions will be addressed at a CIGI event, The Competition Act and Canada's Digital Future.

The Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell will open up the event with some prepared remarks and then participate in a moderated panel discussion led by Vass Bednar, CIGI Senior Fellow and executive director of the Master of Public Policy in Digital Society program at McMaster University; Tahira Dawood, Staff Lawyer at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC); Brandon Schaufele, Associate Professor at Ivey Business School at Western University; and Robin Shaban, Senior Economist and Co-founder, Vivic Research.

This session is free and open to all, and no prior knowledge of the Competition Act is required or expected.