Mark Warner Was on the CBC Weekend Business Panel Talking About the Rogers Network Outage, Elon Musk and Twitter and a Possible Meat-Packing Cartel
Mark Warner was featured on the CBC Weekend Business Panel in Part 1 talking about the Rogers Communications nationwide network outage and Elon Musk abandoning his bid for Twitter and Twitter’s ability to sue for specific performance or to obtain a $1 billion “reverse termination” payment from Musk. In Part 2, the Panel discussed predictions about a looming recession and call for government investigation into whether a meat-packer cartel is responsible for skyrocketing meat prices. (July 9, 2022) 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 participated in the negotiations of the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment 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, and various grant and loan agreements to leading automotive and automotive parts companies, including to electric car battery manufacturer, Electrovaya and a Better Place demonstration centre and electric vehicle charging station network. 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. In addition to being a lawyer, Mr. Warner has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.