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Bank Mergers and the Public Interest
Credit Reporting: How Are Consumers Faring?
PIAC submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications (November 15, 2005).
PIAC is a non-profit organization that provides legal and research services on behalf of consumer interests, and, in particular, vulnerable consumer interests, concerning the provision of important public services.
This report looks at the rules and legislation that govern mergers of large Canadian banks from the consumer point of view and assesses how large bank mergers would likely affect consumers in relation to issues of access, choice and price of banking services.
This report looks at the consumer’s experience of credit reporting. Credit reporting agencies are private companies that collect and organize information about a consumer’s credit history and current transactions and then sell it in the form of a consumer report. Download Report [pdf file: 0.88mb]
OTTAWA, Tuesday, November 15, 2005 The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications, to which was referred Bill C-37, to amend the Telecommunications Act, met this day at 9:00 a.m. to give consideration to the bill. John Lawford, Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre: The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is the first consumer group and I believe the only that has testified ...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) Annual Dinner Presents Featured Speaker Susan Grant Vice President, Public Policy, and National Consumers League Director of the National Fraud Information Centre “Online and On a Tightrope – Are We Losing the War Against Internet Fraud?” Friday November 18, 2005 at 6:00 PM Yangtze Restaurant 700 Somerset Street, West, ...
A Background document is also available and information to sign on to this declation can be found at the end of the declaration. RECOGNIZING THAT: telecommunications performs an essential role in the maintenance of Canada's identity, sovereignty, social cohesion, and economic health, as well as in the well-being of individual Canadians; market forces are incapable, on their own, of ...
Consumers Likely To Pay Price of Proposed Telecommunications Reform In April of this year, in response to the lobbying of Canada's large telephone companies, the federal government created a panel of three industry experts to review the way telephone service and telecommunications should be regulated. The Telecommunications Policy Review Panel (TPRP) has received submissions from numerous ...
New National “Travellers' Protection Initiative” Demands Government Protection for Airline Passengers Group says Bill C-44 must be strengthened TORONTO, June 2, 2005—A new Canada-wide alliance was announced today bringing together like-minded consumer protection and business groups to demand greater federal government protection for Canadian airline passengers. The ...
Ottawa, May 12, 2005: Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released its decision defining the effect of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on present telecommunications regulation in Canada. The CRTC focussed clearly on the issue from a consumer perspective, finding that VoIP represents only a new technological delivery method for telephone calls, not an ...
Flash Presentation on Bank Mergers. PIAC and the law firms in the recent mortgage prepayment penalty class actions bring you this flash presentation on bank mergers (requires free Macromedia Flash Player). The presentation is available here.[flash file: 1.66mb]
WIRELESS NUMBER PORTABILITY PROMISES SHOULD BE KEPT Contact: John Lawford, PIAC (613) 562-4002×25 jlawford@piac.ca The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) congratulates the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) on its promise to implement wireless number portability in Canada without undue delay. Under the CWTA plan announced yesterday, Canadians would be able to ...
Feds: Report to passenger service Globe and Mail Wednesday, March 23, 2005, p A21 MICHAEL JANIGAN Business failure in the Canadian airline industry rarely fails to produce marketplace bathos. In the Jetsgo meltdown, the insolvent airline has pointed fingers at its competitors, Nav Canada and the Competition Bureau, with hostile rejoinders by the blamed. The resulting ruckus about who knew what ...
PIAC Letter to The Honourable Jean Lapierre, Minister of Transport, Re: Consumer Protection B Airline Passengers The Honourable Jean Lapierre (613) 995-0327 Minister of Transport Place de Ville, Tower C 330 Sparks Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0N5 Dear Mr. Lapierre: Re: Consumer Protection B Airline Passengers The Canadian Association of Airline Passengers (CAAP) is a coalition of Canadian ...