North America
In the United States, bid rigging is a criminal offense under Section 1 of the Sherman Act,even so bid rigging is still rampant in the construction industry. In Canada, it is a criminal offense under Section 47 of the Competition Act.
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“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)