The worst is telecoms service costs in Canada are already atrociously high.

https://www.blogto.com/tech/2020/11/canadas-big-3-telecoms-top-list-most-expensive-wireless-providers/

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.

 I'm French but I'm living in Canada for more than 20 years now. And the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) and the "FTC" Bureau (don't recall the name) are JOKES here.

They are actually protecting the big telecommunication companies every time they have the opportunity to do so (and not only for phones but also for the media company like TV providers etc) making EVERYTHING so more costly than anywhere else. The impact on consumers is so bad. I never understood why the hell they exited in the first place as their job is clearly to protect the big fat companies instead of the actual consumers...

And don't even get me started on Québec specific shit, cause on top of the federal jokes, Québec adds up even more things like that (but at least I have to say that this is not to protect the companies in that case, just plain dumb laws).

And the companies know that and they are using it (not blaming them)

I did stop listening to the FTC trial though cause I was bored out of my mind, man has spent the past 30-40 minutes talking about Zenimax and how Microsoft made those titles exclusive to Xbox, Lol.

THAT'S OUR LEADER.

They accidentally left the mic on during break LOL.

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.

Sarah should have solo'd the entire trial.

So since it lapsed in Canada, Microsoft can close at any point they want and Canada can only demand they divest Activision after the closure?

Is that right? Why would Canada not just issue a block to the deal now?

If only, hear me out, there was a regulator who could do something about Apple and Google's anti-competitive/anti-consumer practices? :-O

At least the EU is actually doing something about it, which will then make this point irrelevant.

Oh, the DOJ actually IS doing something about it, Lmao FTC.