{"id":1027,"date":"2008-07-08T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/07\/08\/competition-canadian-style\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T17:01:06","slug":"competition-canadian-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/07\/08\/competition-canadian-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition, Canadian-style?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For god’s sake, someone fire this woman and start over with the “Canadian Competition Bureau<\/a>” while you’re at it!\u00a0 Yet another article in the paper on Rogers<\/a>‘s colossal f*ck-up with the iPhone: iPhone rate plans from Rogers spark consumer protest<\/a>.\u00a0 But this one distinguishes itself for the closing quote by Marilyn Nahum, identified as the spokeswoman for the Canadian Competition Bureau (whatever that is):<\/p>\n

“Where consumers are concerned about the plans being offered with the iPhones, we don’t consider this to be a competition issue,” said Competition Bureau spokeswoman Marilyn Nahum.<\/p>\n

“We don’t consider the iPhone to be a distinct market.<\/p>\n

“It’s a cellphone that competes with other cellphones in the market. If consumers don’t like the plans being offered with the iPhone, they can go to the competitors.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, yeah.\u00a0 The “competitors” that your pissed-off customers will go to are called “other countries.”\u00a0 And we wonder why Canada’s edge in innovation and economics and post-graduate degrees isn’t what it might or should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For god’s sake, someone fire this woman and start over with the “Canadian Competition Bureau” while you’re at it!\u00a0 Yet another article in the paper on Rogers‘s colossal f*ck-up with the iPhone: iPhone rate plans from Rogers spark consumer protest.\u00a0 But this one distinguishes itself for the closing quote by Marilyn Nahum, identified as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}