Mark Warner was featured on the CBC Weekend Business Panel talking about The Body Shop closing one-third of of its Canadian stores and sits online sales, Wendy’s surge pricing announcement reversal. and Cineplex Inc.’s online booking fees and the Competition Bureau’s “drip pricing” test case in the Competition Tribunal. (March 2, 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 and Trade and Investment Policies.

Mark is a former Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and led the Ontario’s legal team for the insolvency / restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler. As Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation (MRI), Mr. Warner led Ontario’s legal team in establishing the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC). As Legal Director for the Ontario MRI, Mr. Warner also provided corporate governance legal advice and secretarial support to the OCGC Board of Directors, as well as to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Immigrant Investor Corporation, and other agencies administered by the Ministries.

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 and advising on the introduction of the Province’s pay day lending laws, the administration of the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act and regulating the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council. In 2015, Mark chaired a first of its kind international conference in Toronto on competition and consumer protection issues in the Sharing Economy.