Update March 26: CREA tells the competition bureau “we’ll see you in court, then.” (Original post follows) Canada’s real estate agents voted March 22 to make changes to their Multiple Listing Service cartel — but the country’s competition commissioner wasn’t impressed. As the Globe and Mail reports, the Canadian Real Estate Association voted to allow home-sellers to post listings onto MLS for a flat fee, and to make their address and phone number available to searchers using Realtor.ca — but in both cases, only through a member realtor. The competition bureau said the changes were a “step in the wrong direction. The Globe quotes the CREA president as saying the new rules were “too complicated for anyone but a real estate agent to understand” and that “…in actual fact they make no difference in the way realtors operate their business and no difference to consumers”. Well then, hard to see the competition bureau’s concern, eh?