Ottawa will aggressively push competition between companies in a bid to ease the cost of living, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said on Wednesday as she opened the Competition Bureau’s annual summit in Ottawa.

In her speech, Joly delivered an emphatic endorsement of more market competition in Canada.

“Let me be clear. This government will be hawkish on competition,” she said.

Joly said affordability is still top of mind for Canadians and argued expanding market competition to give consumers more choices offers a path to lower prices.

The minister cited her August decision to uphold a regulatory decision that allows large telecom firms to offer services on the backs of their rivals’ networks as an example of a measure that boosts competitive forces in the sector.

“The ruling enables in

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