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Q1: Please indicate your gender?
Q2: Please indicate your age in years.
Q3: Which of the following provinces or territories do you live in?
Which of the following provinces or territories do you live in? (required)
Q4: Can you name the organization responsible for enforcing federal competition laws and labelling laws (except as it relates to food products)?
Q5: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Price-fixing, bid-rigging, collusion
Q6: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices
Q7: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Mass-marketing fraud
Q8: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Abuse of dominance (monopolization)
Q9: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Consumer packaging and textile labelling, and marking of precious metals
Q10: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Mergers and acquisitions
Q11: Please indicate how aware you are of these activities. Wage fixing and no-poaching agreements
Q12: Below is a list of Canadian laws. Please indicate how familiar you are with each of them. A federal law called the Competition Act that governs most business conduct in Canada, with the purpose of maintaining and encouraging competition in the Canadi
Q13: Below is a list of Canadian laws. Please indicate how familiar you are with each of them. A federal law called the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act that requires that prepackaged consumer products (except food products) have accurate and meaningf
Q14: Below is a list of Canadian laws. Please indicate how familiar you are with each of them. A federal law called the Textile Labelling Act that requires that textile articles, such as clothing, have accurate and meaningful labelling information
Q15: Below is a list of Canadian laws. Please indicate how familiar you are with each of them. A federal law called the Precious Metals Marking Act that covers the requirements for the marking of precious metals such as gold and silver
Q16: How familiar are you with the Competition Bureau?
Q17: Which statement best reflects your knowledge of the Competition Bureau before completing this survey?
Q18: Over the past year, how clearly do you recall seeing or hearing anything about the Competition Bureau?
Q19: Below is a list of cases pursued by the Competition Bureau. For each of the following, please indicate if you recall hearing about it.
Q20: Below is a list of activities and publications by the Competition Bureau. For each of the following, please indicate if you recall hearing about it.
Q21: Below is a list of Competition Bureau activities and publications. Please indicate the ones, if any, that are of interest to you.
Q22: Using the list below, please indicate the ones, if any, that have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer.
Q23: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest – a publication that offers advice and presents the Bureau's perspective on advertising and marketi
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest – a publ
Q24: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Little Black Book of Scams – a publication with tips to help consumers and businesses recognize and report scams in Canada
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Little Black Book of Scams – a publication with tips to help consume
Q25: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. Updates on the Competition Bureau’s major enforcement cases
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. Updates on the Competition Bureau’s major enforcement cases
Q26: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s Consumer alerts – alerts with information for consumers about deceptive marketing practices, misleading advertising, and scams
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s Consumer alerts – alerts with information for
Q27: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The annual Fraud Prevention Month Campaign to help Canadians recognize, reject and report fraud
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The annual Fraud Prevention Month Campaign to help Canadians recognize, r
Q28: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s submissions to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on telecommunications services.
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s submissions to the Canadian Radio-Television an
Q29: For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s competition promotion work, such as its market studies, submissions to government consultations, summits, and open letters to regulators
You indicated that each of the following have had an impact on your behaviour as a consumer. For each, please indicate what type of impact it had using the drop-down menu provided. The Competition Bureau’s competition promotion work, such as its market
Q30: After reviewing this list of Competition Bureau activities and publications, how would you describe your impression of the Competition Bureau?
Q31: In your opinion, how is the Competition Bureau doing at each of the following? Enforcing laws against anti-competitive behaviour, such as price-fixing and misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices
Q32: In your opinion, how is the Competition Bureau doing at each of the following? Providing Canadian consumers with Consumer alerts containing useful information on deceptive marketing practices, misleading advertising and scams
Q33: In your opinion, how is the Competition Bureau doing at each of the following? Publishing the outcomes of the investigations the Competition Bureau has completed
Q34: In your opinion, how is the Competition Bureau doing at each of the following? Educating consumers on how to protect themselves against harmful activities such as fraud and scams
Q35: In your opinion, how is the Competition Bureau doing at each of the following? Educating Canadians on how to recognize anti-competitive behaviour, such as price-fixing and misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices
Q36: In your opinion, how is the Competition Bureau doing at each of the following? Educating Canadians on how to report suspected anti-competitive activity to the Competition Bureau
Q37: Of the same list of roles it performs, please indicate which should be the Competition Bureau's highest priority, in your opinion.
Q38: Before doing this survey, have you ever contacted the Competition Bureau?
Q39: How did you contact the Competition Bureau?
Q40: Why did you contact the Competition Bureau?
Q41: Overall, how satisfied have you been with the contact that you have had with the Competition Bureau?
Q42: Have you ever had any in-person contact with the Competition Bureau, such as at a tradeshow, conference, or outreach event?
Q43: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I have heard of activities the Competition Bureau does, but I was not aware they were involved
Q44: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I am interested in hearing, reading or seeing more from the Competition Bureau
Q45: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I have the information I need to make informed decisions when participating in the digital marketplace, such as purchasing products or comparing prices
Q46: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I believe the Competition Bureau’s work is beneficial to the economy
Q47: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I feel confident that I can identify and report online scams and fraudulent behaviour
Q47_2: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I feel confident that I can identify online scams and fraudulent behaviour
Q48: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I would trust information provided by the Competition Bureau
Q49: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? I could recognize anti-competitive behaviours
Q50: What method of communication would you prefer if you were to receive information about and from the Competition Bureau?
Q51: Now that you know more about the Competition Bureau, in which sectors of the economy should the Bureau focus its work?
Q52: Prior to taking this survey, had you read, seen or heard anything about changes to the Competition Act introduced in Parliament in the fall of 2023?
Q53: What impact, if any, do you think these changes will have in each of the following areas? The range of choices available to consumers
Q54: What impact, if any, do you think these changes will have in each of the following areas? The affordability of items such as groceries
Q55: Which of the following best describes your current employment status?
Q56: Which of the following best describes the industry or sector you work in? If you are active in more than one sector, please identify the main sector.
Which of the following best describes the industry or sector you work in? If you are active in more than one sector, please identify the main sector.
Q57: How would you describe the area in which you live?
Q58: What is the language you speak most often at home?
What is the language you speak most often at home?
Q59: Were you born in Canada?
Q60: Have you immigrated to Canada within the last 5 years?
Q61: Are you an Indigenous person, that is, First Nations, Métis or Inuk (Inuit)?
Q62: Do you identify as any of the following?
Q63: Which of the following categories best describes your total household income for 2023? That is, the total income of all persons in your household combined, before taxes?