Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry

from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.A. and Ph.D. from McGill University. From 1962 to 1974, he taught at various Canadian universities including Concordia University and the University of Waterloo. He was senior economist at the Economic Council of Canada (1974-76), studying the regulation of financial institutions and markets and contributing to Efficiency and Regulation, in preparation for the revision of The Bank Act. As director of the Resources Branch, Bureau of Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs Canada (1976-81), he specialized in the enforcement of the Combines Investigation Act in the agriculture and energy industries. In 1980 he was seconded to the Privy Council of Canada, Federal-Provincial Office of the Task Force for the Renewal of Federalism. He has extensive experience as a consulting economist with government departments and private clients. He has advised clients on trade practices, competition policy, industrial structure, and economic regulation, especially of agriculture. The author and editor of several books and numerous articles, his most recent publication is AECL-An Evaluation of a Crown Corporation as a Strategist in a Global Entrepreneurial Industry (Economic Council of Canada).