On March 5, 2019, the Government of Canada announced Matthew
Boswell’s appointment as Commissioner of Competition for a
five-year term. Commissioner Boswell has been serving as interim
Commissioner of Competition for the past nine months, following the
conclusion of former Commissioner John Pecman’s term.
Since joining the Competition Bureau in 2011, Commissioner
Boswell has built a range of expertise, having served as the Senior
Deputy Commissioner of both the Mergers and Monopolistic Practices
and the Cartels and Deceptive Marketing Practices branches of the
Competition Bureau. Prior to his time with the Competition Bureau,
Commissioner Boswell was Senior Litigation Counsel in the
Enforcement Branch at the Ontario Securities Commission, where he
primarily prosecuted securities fraud and related matters.
