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Jean-Denis Garon

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Mirabel
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 64%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $114,073.56

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Context: House Hansard - 323 - Jun/3/24
Mr. Jean-Denis Garon
  • Jun/3/24 7:27:40 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be debating with the NDP today because they are once again proving my point. The member says that in France, the finance minister gathered 75 people in a room to negotiate. There is so little competition here that there were five people in the room. They could have fit in a cubicle here in the back of the lobby. We clearly do not have the same market structure at all. The profit margins are higher here. The land area is bigger and it is less densely populated. We have a fundamental issue with competition. What I was saying to the member earlier is that I think that it is a good idea to think about this, but until we find a way to ensure more competition, more innovation and more supply for consumers, we will go from one temporary measure to the next. There are other anti-competitive behaviours. The grocery stores here are all the same. The service offering is identical almost everywhere, and the supply of products is identical everywhere. I think we need to think outside the box and spend a lot of time on this. The member can count on me to be part of that.
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Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Mr. Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)
  • Oct/5/23 4:58:12 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-56 
Madam Speaker, the Bloc Québécois has been calling for a reform of the Competition Bureau system for 20 years or so. For years, we have been asking that the Competition Bureau have the authority to prevent mergers and acquisitions regardless of any efficiency gains they might generate if, at the end of the day, it means higher prices for consumers. That is what happened in the case of grocery stores. Mergers and acquisitions took place. This made them more efficient, but it also enabled them to drive up prices. This measure is specifically covered in in Bill C-56. I would like to know whether my colleague thinks that this Competition Bureau reform is a good thing for consumers.
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