Competition Commissioner Matthew Boswell is beating back monopolies and pushing for strong competition laws and he\u0027s not giving up. Read on.
Former competition commissioner John Pecman.John Pecman ran the Competition Bureau before Boswell. The bureau is essentially a police force that upholds Canadian competition laws. Boswell and Pecman worked together for about seven years, with Boswell reporting directly to Pecman the entire time. At one point, years ago, they walked their dogs together — Pecman had a black lab and a doxie pin, Boswell had a golden retriever.
Pecman’s best guess was that the move to block the deal had become popular with politicians and Canadian cellphone users — who pay some of the highest prices around the world. “I wanted to be on my feet,” he said. “As a young associate at a big Bay Street firm, you’re not going to get on your feet that much.”“My reaction was like Roadrunner. Pshhhooooo. I was out of my Bay Street tower,” he said.
The contract paid half of what Boswell was making on Bay Street. His wedding was a few weeks away. Armstrong asked him if he wanted to take some time to think it over. “He sort of looked at me and said, ‘When can I start?'” she recalled.Article content Sometimes, when he was in bail court, his parents would show up to watch, like their kid was playing in a minor league hockey game. His mom, Joan Boswell, was an artist and author who wrote mystery novels. His dad, Edward Boswell, was a forestry executive.‘A Crown’s crown’
“I had happened to be in Rosie’s Kitchen like, I don’t know, a month before or two months before,” he said. The restaurant had a back exit, into an alley. He warned 911.The summer of 2005 was one of most notorious periods of violence in Toronto’s history. There were dozens of shootings around the city, including one that injured a four-year-old boy, in what became known as “the summer of the gun.”
“At the end of the day, I thought, ‘Oh my God, Donna. You’ve got to get out of here,’ because I wasn’t affected by it. I wasn’t in the bathroom crying.”Around 2006, Boswell left the Crown’s office and went to work for a friend he knew from Smith Lyons who had started his own firm. In court, Boswell’s questioning of Sonny at trial was “one of the best examinations of a witness that I have ever heard in a trial,” Ormston said.He just knew how to handle peopleAt trial, Sonny confirmed the caretaker didn’t place bets on behalf of the elderly man, and in fact, no bookie would take bets from anyone in a nursing home “because such a bettor might die before settling up,” according to the judge’s written decision in 2007.
Many of the victims lived in rural areas and smaller cities — in his father’s mid-Canada. One worked at a tire store and put up a $25,000 investment in a boiler room company on his credit card, Boswell said. “It was going to take him years and years and years to pay that off.”Article content Boswell looked like he was headed to the manager’s office to protest. Vanderlaan rushed to dial the manager’s extension to explain what was going on, but Boswell was already in there.
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