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.

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With files from CBC's Yvonne Colbert