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By the Numbers FUN FACTS & FIGURES


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Game of Monopoly A 2013 C.D. Howe report identified nine Canadian industry sectors, including eggs, broadcasting and banks, with restrictive regulatory regimes. The report calls for fewer monopolies, but it’s already happening


by Steve Brearton


Sections in the Canada Post Act declaring that it is an offence for anyone other than the corporation to deliver local mail. In 2007, one think-tank said continuing the monopoly was a “slow-motion train wreck”


68 | CPA MAGAZINE | MAY 2015


5 Locations in Canada, including


Toronto and Montreal, served by car-sharing service Uber in early 2015. Cities and taxi regulators are launching multiple lawsuits to halt Uber’s spread


7.5 Billions of dollars Canada’s long-


distance telephone market is worth in 1992, when it is opened to competition. Six years later, regulators also end Bell Canada’s monopoly on local calls


22 Recommendations in a 2014


Canadian Bar Association report designed to ease restrictions in the legal profession. The first proposal would allow nonlawyers to own law firms


40 Percent of Canada’s current land


mass over which the Hudson’s Bay Co. enjoyed a monopoly in trade between 1670 and 1868. The land was transferred to Canada in 1870 for £300,000


349 Millions of dollars allocated to help


the Canadian Wheat Board pay employee severance and pensions in 2012 as the Crown corporation transitioned to an open market in wheat sales


1927 Year Ontario enacted legislation


that limits beer sales to Brewers Retail locations. In January this year, a Toronto craft brewer launched a lawsuit challenging the monopoly legislation


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