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The Competition Commission gets ‘excessive pricing’ totally wrong

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The Competition Commission is at it again with its anti-business enforcement of the Competition Act and its “abuse of dominance” provisions that seek to punish successful entrepreneurs.

In the most recent attack on the economy and free enterprise, the prices of another business were deemed “excessive” by the commission.

This conclusion was not demonstrated via market processes like minimal to no demand for the item that is excessively priced, but was rather determined through the pseudo-economics and pseudo-law of the commission and the Competition Tribunal.

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