Mark Warner Discusses Data Breaches, Plastic Bag Bans and U.S. Interest Rate Cuts and Trade Uncertainty

Mark Warner discussed the Capital One data breach, the Sobey’s plastic bag ban and implications for Canada from the escalating trade and currency war between the U.S. Federal Reserve Board interest rate cut and trade uncertainty on the CBC Weekend Business Panel. (August 3, 2019) Mark was Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade advising on trade negotiations and dispute settlement and on economic development, research and innovation grants and loans to corporations, including Huawei. Mr. Warner, a Canadian and American lawyer, previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate. Mark has been an adviser to the Governments of Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam on competition and trade policy and at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State lectured in five cities in Japan on international antitrust law and policy. As Assistant Director of the University of Baltimore’s Centre for International and Comparative Law, Mark hired a Chinese scholar to begin a research program on reforming anti-monopoly law in China, one of the first such efforts at the time. He is frequently interviewed in print, radio and television on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement.