Translation of "intensifier la concurrence " (French → English) :

For those markets where competition is not yet effective (such as the crucial broadband supply market), the Commission wants EU rules applied more effectively, so as to step up competition throughout the single market.

Increased competition on the local network

Allowing new entrants to access the local loop will lead to increased competition on the local network and reduce the cost of using the Internet.

In these instances competition law does not alone provide a satisfactory remedy. In this context, the Commission invited the Member States to examine, where appropriate and possible under national legislation, to adopt other measures aimed at increasing competition in the market.

But if for instance the branches are not as relevant in a current context, in terms of the viability of banking or financial services in Canada, and if we're opening up the borders more so for greater competition and at the same time for instance if within Canada we allow the mergers to go through but we handcuff Canadian financial institutions with some guarantee—for instance, there is some discussion now of guarantees about things like maintaining their branch operations as is for a period of several years, job guarantees and that kind of thing—we would in fact be exposing our domestic financial institutions to undue competitive forces ...[+++] and at the same time handcuffing them from actually competing and doing their thing.

In so doing, and this is one of our main reasons for presenting this motion this morning, the federal government gave the Atlantic provinces the means to intensify economic competition, by enabling Mr. McKenna, who was Premier of New Brunswick at the time, to compete unfairly with Quebec using full page ads announcing that better conditions could be found in New Brunswick for businesses.