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[Oliver Parkes]

Remarksby Commissioner of Competition John Pecman

Saskatchewan Economic Summit

Presented by the Saskatchewan Institute of the Conference Board of Canada

April 4, 2017

Regina, Saskatchewan

The Government of Canada has made promoting innovation a central focus of its economic agenda, and for good reason. Innovation is a vital part of a climate of sustained economic growth. And to maximize innovation, competition is key.

Businesses in competitive markets are driven to innovate. They have a strong incentive to develop new and better products and services to attract and retain customers. They pursue more efficient production techniques and business models.

To protect and promote competition for the benefit of consumers, businesses and the Canadian economy, the Competition Bureau employs a three-pronged approach of targeted enforcement, advocacy and outreach.

First, we enforce the Competition Act by cracking down on cartels and abuses of market power, reviewing mergers and ensuring truth in advertising. One of our key objectives in this area is to protect consumers and businesses in the rapidly growing digital economy.

In our ongoing ebooks case, for example, we are working through the courts to put an end to what we have concluded to be an anti-competitive arrangement between a number of major ebook publishers. That arrangement prevents Canadian retailers from discounting prices in order to compete for your hard earned money. We are committed to restoring retail price competition for ebooks in Canada and look forward to a resolution that will benefit consumers.

We are also looking forward to resolving our ongoing litigation against the Toronto Real Estate Board, which is preventing its members from offering MLS sales data to prospective home buyers through innovative new online services.

Whether retailers are advertising online or in stores, they must comply with the deceptive marketing provisions of the Competition Act. We will not hesitate to take action in order to promote consumer confidence in the marketplace.

We heard from a lot of concerned consumers about the Bell/MTS merger, and we shared their concerns about the impact of the deal on regional competition. Our analysis determined that prices were substantially lower in areas of Canada with a strong regional competitor who can disrupt the effects of price coordination among Bell, TELUS and Rogers.

The telecom sector remains very much on our radar, and any further merger proposals will be carefully reviewed in light of our findings that a regional competitor can disrupt the price coordination between the big three.

We also work with our broader community of partners every March as part of our annual Fraud Prevention Month campaign. The Bureau chairs the Fraud Prevention Forum, which brings together more than 80 law enforcement agencies and public and private sector organizations in an effort to help Canadians recognize, reject and report fraud.

The Competition Bureau views compliance as a shared responsibility, and we expect businesses to take an active roll in ensuring compliance with the law. Businesses do their part to ensure fair play in the marketplace by implementing and adhering to a corporate compliance program. A credible and effective compliance program minimizes your risk of violating the law, and protects your business, your reputation and your employees.

We provide guidance for businesses of all sizes to help them play their part. That includes our recently revised Corporate Compliance Programs bulletin, which is available on our website along with a number of other compliance tools for businesses large and small.

Has it ever been considered to use xISBN integration into special:booksources? xISBN is an OCLC service API which given a single ISBN returns a list of associated ISBNs, like all the editions of a specific title. How would one go about proposing such an integration?As a disclaimer I do work for OCLC. Maximiliankleinoclc (talk) 00:45, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

We have a new tool, Forward to Libraries, which helps readers find books at their local library related to the articles they are reading. There is an RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Linking subjects to books at your local library (Forward to Libraries) to determine how this tool should be used on Wikipedia. Interested users may wish to comment there. 64.40.54.57 (talk) 01:09, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

This article contains a ref that has been assigned an invalid ISBN and is tagged as such in the citation template. Following the ISBN link in the article will take one here, where a scary red message is (in my opinion) likely to strongly discourage people from searching further by this method, however the "find this book" links for at least WorldCat and COPAC Union work perfectly well. Is it technically feasible to suppress the warning in these cases (where the ISBN has been explicitly tagged as "invalid but definitely as-printed"), perhaps by passing an additional argument to Special:BookSources? TuxLibNit (talk) 18:34, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

The IndieBound website seems to only accept ISBN-13 and not ISBN-10 as a search term. Anyone know a way to have the Book sources page convert ISBN-10's automatically to ISBN-13 to feed to this site? Blainster (talk) 04:13, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

The Universal Library / Million Book Project ended in 2008, and it seems(?) that the books scanned from this project are all available from the Internet Archive. Today, at least, their website is showing an error page (although it was up at least as recently as May 2017). I removed it from this page. Daask (talk) 11:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Should this use "Monterey Public Library catalog" or "Monterey Public Library library catalog"? Right now, it isn't consistent. I have a mild preference for the former, but mostly would like it to be consistent. Daask (talk) 13:23, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Per discussions with Vrishaek (talk contribs) on my talk page about an edit to Lathe, I'd like to request to add Mynextbook.in to the book search results as a bookseller in India if other people can vouch for its reputability. I believe the search URL is =[INSERT ISBN HERE]&query_name=match_and. @Vrishaek:, if you know a better generic search query string, feel free to correct this. Also, if you want to explain why mynextbook.in is a good source for India, this is a great place to do it. -Furicorn (talk) 06:32, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@User:Fish and karate Not done is all u could say, so total misuse of power as to what I already said, what a justification you show. as per above, u did not want to understand to what i was talking about, but you know what I am talking about. This shows your true sovereignty here. I am still ready to talk on phone for sources being shown all around on wikipedia, but you are so afraid to even reply with truth. Such is your wonderful manner you possess. Just running away is your solution? Vrishaek (talk contribs)

When using Special:BookSources to look up an ISBN, the table of contents is currently appearing below the lede section for me, even if I use an extremely wide screen. Previously, it was to the right, so that it allowed the actual list of links to be immediately visible without having to scroll past the TOC. Wikipedia:Book sources itself looks correct and there is TOCright in its source. But whatever mechanism is used in the Special transclusion of it seems to override or break that somehow. DMacks (talk) 03:01, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand the logic of this edit at all. I tried to implement a workaround that would allow this page to work properly without requiring a revert of the TOCright template, but User:Izno has reverted the page back to the version that doesn't work. --Srleffler (talk) 17:59, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Internet Archive contains books. I would like to edit this page to include searching this resource to help identify sources. Also, I worked with another editor and created a search template that works on talk pages, sandbox and draft pages. It's pretty comprehensive and works well:

unfortunately the page is view source only or I would fix it myself and I don't have a login from this computer. N.B. this will be a shared IP so don't bother with the user talk. I will maybe reply here. All the best.

Following an issue with another editor at Communism, I have discovered a discrepancy between different book sources. The ISBN of the 2016 book Communism: The Great Misunderstanding, by Gennady Ermak, is 9781533082893. The Book Sources page for this ISBN gives links to several sources. The links to Google Books and Amazon lead to the correct title. However, the Open Library link leads to the title "Relative value of different weights of tin coating on canned food containers: Report of an investigation by a Technical committee representing the National canners association, the American sheet and tin plate company, and the American can company (1917)', by the National Canners Association. If the Open Library catalogue is inaccurate or incomplete, should there be a warning note placed on the Book Sources page, so that other editors who, like me, prefer this site to the commercial links do not make the same mistake that I did of believing that another editor had repeatedly added an incorrect source? RolandR (talk) 21:41, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

That's a lot more than I want to code. If you enter 0-596-51516-2 at Special:BookSources then you get :BookSources?isbn=0-596-51516-2. In this case the hyphenated ISBN is not available to the code in Wikipedia:Book sources as far as I can tell. PAGENAME only gives "BookSources", and MAGICNUMBER is always without hyphens. I have therefore disabled the OR part of the search if PAGENAME cannot pick up a hyphenated ISBN.[2] Some questions:

I attempted to add Project MUSE, it's in the Wikipedia Library and has "36,000 ebooks in the humanities and social sciences" ([3]). I don't know enough to write the correct search string here, the one I wrote doesn't work, and I hope someone who knows more than me will fix it. This is a search string that works within Muse:

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