Sentences with phrase «up to the competition bureau»

«It's now up to the Competition Bureau to decide whether or not they feel these rules are in fact illegal», adding that he hopes the Competition Bureau makes a determination about this issue «in the next 45 days, so that the landscape becomes clear.»

CREA appears to me to be thick skinned and slick as it wades through membership requests that the stand up to the Competition Bureau.

I also think they owe a duty to us to stand up to the Competition Bureau, which they really haven't done.

A number of comments posted on REM's online Forum leading up to the Competition Bureau's announcement on February 8 that it was ceasing negotiations and seeking a formal tribunal hearing are highly critical of any negotiations regarding access to CREA's trademarked MLS system.

It is time to stand up to the Competition Bureau's socialist agenda.

I would not object to the fees to CREA if they just had the guts to stand up to the Competition Bureau, who for some reason hate realtors.

Not exact matches

According to an official with the Competition Bureau complaints have begun streaming in from frustrated realtors stating that they are restricted by the usage agreement from setting up Virtual Office Websites.

Aitken has made ample use of an enhanced Competition Act, beefed up just prior to her appointment as commissioner of the Competition Bureau in 2009, litigating without hesitation or remorse.

In order for VOW operators to be in the position to offer the kind of Commission savings, that have been promoted by the Competition Bureau within their pleadings — and why would they want to unless it was absolutely necessary — would it also not hold true that in a industry such as organized real estate that is grossly oversaturated with members that VOW's would not only have to hurt some existing competitors, but would need to accomplish this to an extent where the figurative wall will rise up and thus represent a literal «barrier to entrance» into the real estate industry?

The Competition Bureau began taking steps to lower ebook prices in Canada in 2014 and the issue has been tied up in litigation (including a third - party challenge from Kobo) ever since.

Yay to the Competition Bureau... I'm hoping that the prices will fall to be more in line with the US now and that some of those sales are transferred up here.

The Competition Bureau will now take its case to the Competition Tribunal but CREA can be expected to put up a good fight.

The federal Competition Bureau estimated in 2010 that credit card acceptance fees added up to $ 5 billion annually — a figure that has likely grown since — with about $ 4 billion of that coming in the form of interchange fees.

In the wake of the Competition Bureau's move to open up the MLS system to everyone, realtors and real estate boards have been talking up the risks of selling your own home.

FICO didn't have any real competition until 2006, when the three credit reporting bureaus teamed up to create VantageScore.

PhoneBusters — set up by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), Competition Bureau Canada and OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) to field reports of fraud, especially telephone fraud.

More recently Qadeer has been dealing with rapid and comprehensive regulatory changes to privacy and anti-spam laws that has required keeping up with Competition Bureau guidelines and keeping pace with changes to product liability requirements.

The number of court reporter positions should remain steady, with a slight 2 percent increase through 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which means you may be up against some tough competition for any job openings in this field.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates up to 8 percent employment growth for crane and tower operators through 2024, but it's important to note that employment opportunities in this field are often geographically specific, meaning that competition will be more intense in some areas than in others.

I hope the Competition Bureau appeals because I would enjoy hearing the same decision all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Ms Aitken and the Competition Bureau et al are definitely out to break up the organized real estate industry, as it currently functions, as far as I am able to determine.

remember the FSBO companies «selling properties have nothing to lose and have the weight of the Competition Bureau to support them, to back up their rights and to break any laws they chose.

For various reasons, including not wanting to rile the Competition Bureau, TREB, OREA or CREA would rather spend their time and effort coming up with new ways to earn revenue from its members than pick a fight with the FSBO's.

I don't know how big this story has got to get before the larger Canadian media finally sit up and take proper notice, but it's long past time for the Competition Bureau to fold up its tents, and the best way to sell newspapers is through high political intrigue!

It seems the Competition Bureau has opened up opportunities for the public to be put at greater risk while trading real estate through these companies and our regulators have sat by very quietly.

It seems that the Competition Bureau wants REALTORS ® to give up rightful exclusive use of MLS ®.

Santa would certainly never presume to tell the Competition Bureau how to do its job, but he is prepared to offer up a touch of holiday help by suggesting a few glaringly anti-competitive industries it may have overlooked in its otherwise eager efforts:

REM: Some aspects of what the Competition Bureau is proposing a Realtor's role should be in real estate transactions appear to contradict what FINTRAC requires Realtors to do for «know your client» due diligence — has that come up in your negotiations with the bBureau is proposing a Realtor's role should be in real estate transactions appear to contradict what FINTRAC requires Realtors to do for «know your client» due diligence — has that come up in your negotiations with the bureaubureau?

What concerns me with this is that someone actually, in spite of the numerous issues with the Competition Bureau we've had here in Canada, wrote an article suggesting that listing agents tell the sellers that by jacking up their commission they might, maybe, possibly, entice a buyer to pay more than the property's market value because the object is to get unethical buyer reps to steer their buyer to that property.

Until we can have an open forum, where we are able to talk freely and stop pretending that everything is OK to satisfy the Real Estate Police and their Overlords — the Fascist Competition Bureau, we may as well just give up.

Let me pose these questions to the public and the honourable lady who heads up the Competition Bureau.

But let me pose these questions to the public and the honourable lady who heads up the Competition Bureau.

I blame the competition bureau... they want to open up the industry to new «styles» (commission cutters) but this clearly created a load of unscrupulous sales people (over and above what was already here) looking to undercut the competition — and with less commission comes less service.

I'm going to ask the Competition Bureau to force Coca - Cola to let me use their bottles, brand and distributors to sell the concoction I whipped up in the laundry tub last week.

Natalie I would suggest you read up on the word «collusion» with the Competition Bureau — you're very close to that line if not crossing it.

(If you have one, the Competition Bureau would like to set up an anonymous tip line.

The absence of the kind of democratic goodwill that would be associated with any real CREA general membership involvement was a feature leading up to the vote on the Consent Agreement in St. Johns Nfld and there is a particular irony to this because the matter involved a Federal Government entity, namely, the Competition Bureau of Canada.

Since it's OUR information, what rights does the competition bureau have to force us to give up complete control over who gets to see it.

This particular experience PLUS all this junk about the competition bureau is pushing me very close to hanging up my Realtor hat.

It may interest you to know that the FSBO operator who championed the charge to the competition bureau has given up his FSBO operation as he now realizes that the traditional brokerage as his research shows that is what most people are looking for

So that OUR MLS system can be compromised in the name of the Competition Bureau and CREA's inability to, as Mr Montague so delightfully puts, grow some stones and stand up for what we, as PROFESSIONALS have worked so hard to develop in such a way that is accessible and appealing to both Realtors and the public alike?

We as REALTORS (R) at this time of attack by the Competition Bureau should be working together to strengthen our unity rather than to throw up your hands and voice your dissension!

Had MLS.ca been set up originally as a password protected site accessible only to clients of licenced Realtors (both buyers and sellers) I doubt very much that we would be under this pressure from the Competitions bureau and certain private entities to open it up.

Don't you feel a little that CREA gave up to much willingly, without a fight, to the whims of the Commissioner of the Competition Bureau.

Right up to the point where the competition bureau decided we should allow everyone access to post on our realtor.ca.

We need to stand up as realtor's straight across Canada and send both CREA and the Competition Bureau, enough is enough.

The only gov» t agency with the authority to open up the MLS system was the competition bureau, and they did that, with «the consent» of our 20 million dollar a year CREA organization.

In order for VOW operators to be in the position to offer the kind of Commission savings, that have been promoted by the Competition Bureau within their pleadings — and why would they want to unless it was absolutely necessary — would it also not hold true that in a industry such as organized real estate that is grossly oversaturated with members that VOW's would not only have to hurt some existing competitors, but would need to accomplish this to an extent where the figurative wall will rise up and thus represent a literal «barrier to entrance» into the real estate industry?

Now think about this for a moment: there is huge pressure by the Department of Justice in the United States and the Competition Bureau in Canada to open up the MLS to anyone and everyone.

I couldn't agree more — every time an issue comes up, CREA huffs and puffs and swears up and down that they are going to vigurously their Realtor consituents, only to cave in at the last minute based on some nonsensical excuse — amazing how CREA couldn't afford to take on the Competition Bureau but the Toronto Real Estate Board could — CREA has long outlived it's usefullness