Ryuu96 said:
Totally protecting competition/consumers and not protecting their regulatory buddies, Lol. The behaviour of some of these regulators is so damn disappointing and transparent. They're just desperate for a win against "big tech" and then if they get that, they'll instantly go back to approving actually consumer/competition damaging acquisitions, in Canada's case, they're doing that at the same time, Lmao. Pretend like they achieved something and pat themselves on the back. Canada still let it lapse though so Microsoft can still technically close in Canada whenever they want, I think they're just cowardly hoping that FTC succeeds so they don't have to do anything. Interesting question would be what Australia and New Zealand do if FTC fails, will they block to add extra pressure for CMA to finish the job or will they wait because they're both countries where Microsoft could easily ignore. |
Yep if there was anything serious found by Canada they would have spoken in due time. Now it just seems they're willing to play the obedient tools in favor of some political capital.
Not that surprising considering the current Canadian government often found itself in scandals of using corrupt schemes to pocket some public money like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsorship_scandal and more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE_Charity_scandal.
The only thing positive about liberals is that they are not f***ing climate/reality deniers like the conservatives.
