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you have to be careful when you analyse these practises to determine what the impact is on the economy. Just because it is "an exclusive clause" doesn't mean it reduces competition. There are a lot of examples where it can be pro-competitive to have these things. >> Jacqueline: so the commissioner is looking at these two grocery giants and saying the way this is being done is anticompetitive. What is it about how they're doing it that they think is anti-competitive. >> At this point, they are investigating. They haven't reached any firm conclusion that it is or isn't anti-competitive. Let's say how could it be? That would be if it's widespread enough that all of the potential or most of the potential locations for a new grocery store chain that wants to enter the canadian market, that say they come and they start looking for locations and they can't find any because they're all locked up by these exclusive clauses. So that would be the concern, that it prevents expansion by competitors. >> Jacqueline: what do you think? If there weren't these clauses, there could be more competition in the grocery sector? >> So I don't know to be honest. My instinct is that there are a lot of plazas and land out there. I'm dubious as to how big of a problem this is. >> Jacqueline: yeah, I guess the commissioner doesn't know either because this is something they noted as wanting to investigate to try to figure out, you know, the right balance to strike here I suppose. >> That's right. They will investigate. They will look at all the papers. What part of the order they got is an order to get information from loblaws and sobeys. So this is going to help them in their inquiry. They will look at the documents, they're going to talk to people, and they will investigate. It takes a long time, by the way. They may or may not bring a case in the competition tribunal, depending on what their investigation finds. >> Jacqueline: why do you think they are investigating these chains and it's legitimate to treat them as being jointly dominant. The act allows for this. It's always been there. It would be the first time if this case is brought, it will be the first time that anyone attempts to bring a case like this. >> Jacqueline: just one last sort of hypothetical here michael. Let's say they go through this investigation and find that these property controls are hurting competition, that the way that these grocers are going about it is anticompetitive. The government decides, we don't want property controls in the grocery space because we know there is this big push from the federal government to try to get more competition in the grocery sector. Is that something they can change? Is it something that they could limit? >> Yeah, so there are two ways they can attack this. One is through a proceeding in the competition tribunal. They would have to show that all the elements of the division is met. The other would be for provincial governments to enact legislation that makes these clauses in commercial leases unlawful and they can do that. The federal government could not. This is a provincial jurisdiction. Provincial governments could, if they consider that it was the appropriate thing. Again, one has to be careful. These laws can have unintended consequences. You know, there are good reasons why retailers want limits on competitors that can be present in the same plaza. For that matter, most landlords probably want mixed plazas that have one pharmacy, one bakery, one bank, so forth and not just a plaza full of all of the same kinds of stores. >> Jacqueline: good points there michael. Great to get your thoughts on this today. Thanks so much for coming in. >> You're most welcome. >> Jacqueline: that was michael osborne. >> Andrew: border and customs officers could go on strike as early as next month. Workers with the canada border services agency have voted 96% in favour of job action. There is no strike date set, but

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