Competition Bureau gets a budget boost, but is it enough to make companies think twice?

People upset about big, dominant companies breaking competition rules and pushing them out of business sometimes visit Michael Osborne, a partner at a downtown Toronto law firm. If he takes the case, he drafts a complaint about the abusive practices and submits it to the Competition Bureau. “You think it’s a really good case, and the bureau says, ‘Yeah, well, but we don’t have the resources,’” said the specialist in...