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Free markets, oligopolies, 'price maintenance': Share your opinions, stories about Canadian prices
CBC News Posted: Feb 16, 2016 1:58 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 16, 2016 1:58 PM ET
CBC senior correspondent Neil Macdonald writes in a column today that Canadians "are protected from certain free-market excesses, but that coddled security comes with a price: oligopolies, in which a few firms dominate, and all the behaviour that flows from that."
Toronto-Dominion Bank is about to become the last of the big five banks to charge a fee for transferring your tax-free savings account to another financial institution. Bell, Rogers and Telus all raised their prices recently. And governments have a wary eye on Uber, as it tries to keep a permanent foothold in Canada's cities.
What do you think? Is there an upside to tightly controlled business sectors?
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