Mark Warner Was on the CBC Weekend Business Panel Talking About the Johannesburg G20 Summit, the Canada Post Labour Agreement and Falling Home Sales

Mark Warner was featured on the CBC News Weekend Business Panel talking about the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa and the Canadian Prime Minister Carney government’s muted engagement with Africa, the Canada Post tentative labour agreement and falling home sales, interest rates and house prices. (November 22, 2025) Mr. Warner is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practised in Toronto, Washington, D.C., New York and Brussels and has advised governments on trade policy and trade negotiations.

Mark has provided technical assistance / legislative drafting advice to African governments including Ethiopia and South Africa and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) on drafting / implementing competition laws and regulatory reform. He has also taught trade law at the University of the Western Cape, the International Law Institute African Centre for Legal Excellence in Kampala, Uganda and the Addis Ababa University Faculty of Business and Economics.

Mr. Warner also previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate where he participated in the negotiations of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and represented the OECD at meetings of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition Policy and the Working Group on Trade and Investment. 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.

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.