Registration - Consultant

Subject Matters

• Broadcasting
• Consumer Issues
• Economic Development
• Employment and Training
• Environment
• Financial Institutions
• Government Procurement
• Industry
• Intellectual Property
• Internal Trade
• International Trade
• Privacy and Access to Information
• Small Business
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications

Subject Matter Details

Government Contract Pursued

• Potential business for external online auction site and/or online payment partnerships in respect of Government surplus sales via external online auction sites and/or via the development of an internal Public Works and Government Services Canada online auction site and/or online payment systems.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Legislative proposals around the Canadian Copyright Act relating to third party liability and anti-circumvention provisions on devices.
• Pending re-introduction of the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (formerly Bill C-27 in previous session of Parliament) in respect of provisions that impede legitimate e-commerce.
• The Competition Bureau's review of the merger of TicketMaster + Live Nation to ensure that the merger is in compliance with the Competition Act and that the merger will not prevent or lessen competition substantially.
• Under the federal Competition Act, through the Civil Matters branch of the Competition Bureau, a review of whether TicketMaster abused existing agreements with venues - and thereby contravened the Competition Act - by buying out tickets to major events and then reselling them at a much higher price through a secondary website, TicketsNow, that they own.

Policies or Program

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) as it relates to government consultations, intellectual property rights (IPR) and the necessity to ensure that international IPR discussions and regulations are not going to dictate Canadian policy making.
• Canada-European Union Trade Agreement (CETA) in relation to government consultations, and relating to policies affecting third party liability, grey market goods, parallel imports and the utilization of copyright and trademark policy as a way to protect distribution channels.
• Industry Canada's consultation on a national Digital Economy Strategy for Canada as it relates to provisions on ecommerce.
• Internet and telecommunications policy relating to network management and net neutrality.
• Tax Policy in Canada as it relates to personal exemption thresholds.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication
• Meetings

Government Institutions

• Canadian Heritage (PCH)
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Competition Bureau Canada (COBU)
• Competition Tribunal (CT)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
• House of Commons
• Industry Canada
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada (OIC)
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Works and Government Services Canada
• Senate of Canada

Address:
2 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 701
Toronto, ON  M4T 2T5
Canada

Telephone number: 416-969-2267

Client representative

Andrea Stairs, Country Manager of eBay Canada

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