Mark Warner was featured on the CBC Weekend Business Panel talking about new Temporary Foreign Worker program limits for businesses, the Competition Tribunal decision on Cineplex Inc.’s online booking fees in the Competition Bureau’s “drip pricing” test case and PayPal Holdings decision to enable U.S. merchants to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency from their business accounts. (September 28, 2024) Mr. Warner is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practiced in Toronto, Washington, D.C., New York and Brussels and has advised governments on trade policy and trade negotiations and previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate in Paris, and represented the OECD at meetings of the WTO Working Groups on Trade and Competition Policies.

Mark is a former Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and advised Ontario in the CETA negotiations, including with respect to Cross Border Trade in Services; Temporary Entry and Stay of Natural Persons for Business Purposes and Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications. As Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation (MRI), Mr. Warner provided corporate governance legal advice and secretarial support to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Immigrant Investor Corporation, and other agencies administered by the Ministries.

As MRI Legal Director, Mark also led Ontario’s legal team in creating the $250 million Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund, the $205 million Ontario Venture Capital Fund and establishing the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation. As a former Acting Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services, Mark was responsible for prosecutions under the provincial consumer protection laws and regulations. MCS is responsible for administering Film Classification Act, 2005 and the Ticket Sales Act (Ontario) which establishes requirements for ticket businesses and other persons and outlines protections for purchasers of tickets to Ontario events.

Mark is a past Chair of the International and Economics Committees of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law as well as a member of the Section’s Task Forces on Competition Policy and NAFTA and Antitrust in the Global Economy. He has been listed in the Euromoney / International Financial Law Review Guide to the World’s Leading Competition lawyers.