A proposed collaboration between Amazon and the University of Ottawa’s business school, focusing in part on the threat that antitrust reform poses to…
Advertisement 5Brutus circulated the proposal to at least one other department at the university—the law school—according to the emails. One suggested change was to have the Amazon funds put in a blind trust to keep the company at arm’s length from research conducted under the initiative, according to a source familiar with the affair, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to share information about the discussions.
Three weeks later, Brutus wrote an email to Marie-Eve Sylvestre, the vice-dean of the university’s civil law section. “There is some water in the gas as they’ve become a bit more insistent [and] controlling in regards to focus. I clearly established the guidelines and the freedom we expect. We’ll see what happens but I’m no longer sure that they are interested in going to the ball with us,” Brutus wrote, in French. “Should it fail, I intend to recycle the proposal to another sponsor.
Amazon’s past efforts to influence debate over antitrust reform in Canada have focused heavily on academics, experts and public policy institutes. In the recording obtained last fall by, Maunder cited “the work we’ve been doing” with U.S. law professor Daniel Sokol and former Competition Bureau Canada commissioner John Pecman, both of whom have published reports critical of Canada’s Competition Act reform that appeared on C.D. Howe’s website. Amazon Canada was a major donor to C.D.
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