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Competition, Canadian-style?

July 8, 2008 at 9:41 am | In canada | 3 Comments

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

“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.

“We don’t consider the iPhone to be a distinct market.

“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.”

Um, yeah.  The “competitors” that your pissed-off customers will go to are called “other countries.”  And we wonder why Canada’s edge in innovation and economics and post-graduate degrees isn’t what it might or should be.