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Cool your jets feds - U of C researcher warns airport sale could raise what Canadians pay to fly
Rules on fees must be law before bids open for Pearson, Vancouver, Montréal-Trudeau and Calgary CALGARY, Oct. 8, 2026 — Canadian flyers could pay more for decades if Ottawa sells the right to operate the country’s four largest airports before it caps what those airports can charge, says a new paper from the Research Program in Competition and Regulation at the University of Calgary. On Sept. 15 the prime minister said the government will seek long-term concessions for Toronto


UCalgary Economics Department launches new regulatory and competition policy research program
The program will be the first in a Canadian university to focus on the practice and policy of regulation and competition enforcement Calgary, AB – The University of Calgary’s Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts has launched a new program to provide a bridge between academic research and real-world policy challenges in the realm of competition and regulation in Canada. The objective of the Research Program on Competition and Regulation (RPCR) is to create a dedicate
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