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I think there's a place for non-competes, but it's the sort of thing where a heavy consideration needs to be in place. As in, it's the sort of thing you'd do for senior management, and in exchange for being out of the market that senior management gets a considerable amount of money at the time of termination commensurate with what's being asked of them. I believe that jurisprudence on the topic in Canada is similar to that.

We've seen that if there isn't a heavy cost for asking an employee to take such a heavy burden, you very quickly start to see absurdity like fast food employees having to sign non-competes.

On the whole, I perceive that specific regulation or deregulation is irrelevant when all the other regulation becomes all-encompassing enough. Putting one small factor or another on the table or taking it off isn't that important when facing a system specifically designed to ensure overwhelmingly large organizations get a lion's share of everything.

That being said, I think we've been living in the current paradigm so long that I don't know what an alternative that puts more power in the hands of individual workers and less in the hands of employers who are selected from the pool as companies that are large enough to deal with the bureaucracy of hiring someone looks like.