Canada’s Competition Commissioner okays merger that will reduce competition in Canada’s pulp and paper sector

by Joan Baxter December 29, 2022January 3, 2023

Northern Pulp is a Paper Excellence company. Photo: Joan Baxter

By approving Paper Excellence’s takeover of Resolute Forest Products, the Competition Bureau is granting a privately-owned and very opaque Indonesian corporation immense control over Canada’s pulp and paper industry, and the forest resources that feed it.

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Joan Baxter is an award-winning Nova Scotian journalist and author of seven books, including "The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest." Website: www.joanbaxter.ca;... More by Joan Baxter

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