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Canadian Competition Bureau Stakes Out Aggressive Stance on Property Controls in Preliminary Enforcement Guidance

Following the Canadian Competition Bureau’s 2023 Retail Grocery Market Study in which it recommended that provincial and territorial governments take measures to limit property controls in the grocery industry, including...more

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Shifting the Burden: Proposed Changes to Merger Reviews in Canada

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Canadian businesses may soon face tougher standards in merger review if amendments being considered by the government to include “structural presumptions” and more onerous remedy standards in merger reviews are passed into...more

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Study Period: What to Do When the Canadian Competition Bureau Starts a Market Study of Your Industry

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Recent (and ongoing) amendments to the Competition Act have resulted in several new powers for the Competition Bureau, which may have significant and far-reaching implications for businesses in Canada. One such amendment...more

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New Excessive and Unfair Pricing Provisions in Force in Canada’s Competition Act: Risk and Compliance Considerations

Canada’s Competition Act was amended effective December 15, 2023 to both (i) establish a new, more expansive framework for challenging anti-competitive conduct by dominant firms and (ii) specifically provide that it is an...more

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New Sweeping Competition Powers for the Canadian Government

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With the passing of Bill C-56, the most recent in an ongoing series of amendments to the Competition Act have now been enacted (with more expected to follow). The Commissioner of Competition has been pushing for amendments to...more

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A New Era for Canadian Competition Law: Landmark Proposed Changes to the Competition Act Announced

The government announced significant additional amendments to Canada’s Competition Act in late November 2023, building on those already under consideration by Parliament in Bill C-56 and others enacted in 2022. More...more

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Government’s “Generational Changes to Competition Law in Canada” Increase Risks for Canadian Businesses

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On November 28, 2023 the Canadian government unveiled another round of amendments to the Competition Act that had been previewed in its Fall Economic Statement the previous week. These changes, together with several...more

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Great FESpectations: Further Changes to Canadian Competition Law Ahead

Canada’s Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, delivered the federal government’s Fall Economic Statement (FES) on November 21, 2023, in which she announced the government’s intention to introduce “generational changes to...more

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Difederico v. Amazon.com Inc.: Federal Court Finds Proposed Class Action has no Prospect of Success

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In Difederico v. Amazon.com, 2023 FC 1156, the Federal Court refused to certify a proposed class action involving allegations that a collection of Amazon entities (“Amazon”) had breached sections 45 and 46 of the Competition...more

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Government-Ordered Market Studies and Less Efficiencies: Canadian Government Introduces Amendments to the Competition Act

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The Canadian government has proposed giving the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry the ability to direct the Competition Bureau to conduct market studies with the ability to compel production of related documents...more

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Commissioner Wins Secure Energy Appeal: Key Takeaways

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The Federal Court of Appeal’s recent decision upholding the Commissioner of Competition’s largely successful challenge of Secure Energy Services Inc.’s acquisition of Tervita Corporation provides further evidence that the...more

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Despite High Inflation, Canadian Government Holds Merger Review Threshold Steady

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For the second year in a row the Canadian government has maintained the transaction-size threshold for pre-merger notification at $93 million. The Minister cited the need to fully scrutinize potentially harmful deals and the...more

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Competition Bureau Seeks Feedback on Enforcement Guidance for Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements

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Last year, the Competition Act was amended to make it a criminal offense for two or more unrelated employers to enter into wage-fixing or no-poaching agreements. As we discussed last summer, these new provisions come into...more

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Canada’s Competition Act Amendments: Making It Riskier to Compete on Price?

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One of the recent amendments to the Competition Act has the potential to seriously chill price competition by leading Canadian businesses....more

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Canada Pushes Through Competition Act Amendments

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The Government of Canada has now passed significant amendments to the Competition Act via its Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 (the “BIA”), which received Royal Assent on June 23, 2022. The inclusion of these changes in...more

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Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Recent Developments in Criminal Antitrust for Busy Corporate Counsel - Q1 2022

Since the last edition of the QCC, there has been a series of dramatic developments in the criminal antitrust enforcement space in the U.S. from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (Division)....more

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Canada First: Sound Policy Must Prevail over Groupthink

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The calls to reform Canada's antitrust framework are growing louder. On February 7, 2022, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, announced a comprehensive review of the Competition...more

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Competition Bureau’s interest in the health sector continues

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Promoting competition and innovation in Canada’s health sector, including the pharmaceutical industry, is a strategic priority for the Competition Bureau. In 2021, the Bureau announced that it joined its counterparts in the...more

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OSC Undertaking Consultation on Tied Selling

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Late last month, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced that it was undertaking a consultation process in regards to the practice of tied selling among commercial lenders. The announcement follows a request by...more

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Commissioner of Competition Urges Reboot of Canadian Competition Law

In his annual address to Canada’s competition bar last week, the Commissioner of Competition, Matthew Boswell, offered a full-throated defence of vigorous competition law enforcement as a key driver of Canada’s post-pandemic...more

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Ontario, Canada Court Reminds Employers that Improperly Drafted Restrictive Covenants are Unenforceable

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In Labrador Recycling Inc. v. Folino, 2021 ONSC 2195 (Labrador Recycling), Ontario’s Superior Court denied an employer’s motion for an urgent injunction to restrain its former employee from competing with it contrary to the...more

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Competition Act and Investment Canada Act Review Thresholds Lowered for 2021

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The Competition Bureau announced that the 2021 size of transaction pre-merger notification threshold under the Competition Act will decrease to C$93 million from the current threshold of C$96 million. Acquisitions may be...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.10.2020 | Top Story: Federal and State Regulators Sue Facebook over Alleged Antitrust Violations

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The long-awaited Facebook antitrust bomb dropped on Wednesday, with the FTC and attorneys general from more than 40 states accusing Zuck & Co. of “buying up its rivals to illegally squash competition” in D.C. federal district...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.16.2020 | Top Story: WTO Finds U.S.’s 2018 Tariffs on China Broke Trade Rules

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A World Trade Organization panel on Tuesday declared that the U.S.’s 2018 tariffs on China “violated international trade rules,” siding with China and its allegations that the White House’s trade war broke, among other...more

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Defending an Abuse of Dominance Case

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Required and Regulated Conduct under Canada’s Competition Act - The Competition Bureau’s updated Abuse of Dominance Enforcement Guidelines expressly provide, for the first time, that a party’s compliance with a statutory...more

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