Gavin Murphy

Introduction On 19 December 2017, Loblaw Companies Limited (‘Loblaw’), Canada’s largest grocery store chain, and George Weston Ltd (‘Weston’), which owns national bread baker Weston Bakeries, admitted to participation in a packaged bread price-fixing scheme for more than 14 years that ran from late (...)

Introduction Canada expanded its international competition law cooperation framework on 2 December 2016 when the commissioner of competition (commissioner), who has statutory authority to administer and enforce Canada’s Competition Act (Act), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with (...)

Introduction Following a request for public comment in May 2015, the Competition Bureau, which assists the Commissioner of Competition (“Commissioner”) in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (“Act”), published the final version of its Competition and Compliance Framework (...)

Introduction Today’s global economy makes international cooperation in the enforcement of competition laws essential. To this end on 1 December 2014 Canada’s Commissioner of Competition (“Commissioner”) and the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) on (...)

Introduction The Canadian Competition Bureau (“Bureau”), which assists the Commissioner of Competition (“Commissioner”) in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (“Act”) , announced on 21 March 2014 that the Commissioner has reached a consent agreement with Loblaw Companies (...)

Introduction The Supreme Court of Canada (“court”) ruled on 7 November 2013 in R v Vu that specific warrant authorisation is needed to execute searches of computers and mobile phones. While the decision concerned alleged offences related to the production and possession of marijuana, it most (...)

Introduction The Supreme Court of Canada (“court”) ruled on November 7, 2013 in R v Vu (“Vu”) that specific warrant authorisation is needed to execute searches of computers and mobile phones. While the judgment concerned alleged offences in relation to the production and possession of (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”), an independent law enforcement agency that assists the commissioner of competition in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act, released its Action Plan on Transparency (the “Plan”) on 28 May 2013. According to the (...)

Introduction On 23 October 2012 Canada’s Competition Bureau (the Bureau), an independent law enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (the Commissioner) in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act, reached a consent agreement with Air Canada and United (...)

Introduction On 6 September 2012 the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) upheld an earlier decision of the General Court (formerly the Court of First Instance) in the Prezes Urzedu Komunikacji Elektronicznej case that in-house lawyers cannot represent their client companies before EU (...)

Melanie Aitken, Canada’s Commissioner of Competition, (“Commissioner”) announced on 28 June 2012 that she will resign on 21 September 2012. She has been Commissioner since 2009, and was scheduled to serve until 2014. In a statement released by the Competition Bureau (“Bureau”), which assists the (...)

Introduction On 13 June 2012 the Quebec Court of Appeal (the “Court of Appeal”) confirmed, in Express Transaction Services Inc v Canada (Attorney General) , the legality of a search conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the “RCMP”) pursuant to an investigation into alleged fraud under (...)

Introduction The Ontario Court of Appeal (the "court") said Canada’s Competition Bureau (the "Bureau"), which assists the Commissioner of Competition in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (the "Act"), used potentially defamatory language in a 2009 press release website (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau (the "Bureau"), an independent law enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (the "Commissioner") in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (the "Act"), wants to ground Air Canada. The Bureau announced on 27 June (...)

Gavin Murphy, barrister and solicitor, Ottawa, Canada. The author serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Commonwealth Law Bulletin and the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law. Shane Zurbrigg is a second year law student at the University of Ottawa. The views expressed in this (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau (the "Bureau"), an independent law enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (the "Commissioner") in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (the "Act"), and the Canadian real estate industry are at odds again. (...)

Introduction The Canadian Competition Bureau (the «Bureau»), an independent law enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (the «Commissioner») in ensuring a competitive and innovative marketplace through administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (the «Act»), (...)

I. Introduction The long arm of Canadian competition law caught up with Matthew Hovila on 15 January 2011 when he was arrested for the operation of an alleged online job opportunities scam and breach of a consent agreement filed with the Competition Tribunal (the "Tribunal") pursuant to the (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau, an independent law enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (the “Commissioner”) in protecting and promoting competition, announced on 8 February 2010 that a notice of application would be filed on behalf of the Commissioner with (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”), an independent enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (the “Commissioner”) in protecting and promoting competition, released its Enforcement Guidelineson“product of Canada” and “made in Canada” Claims(the “Guidelines”) (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau (“Bureau”), an independent enforcement agency that assists the Commissioner of Competition (“Commissioner”) in protecting and promoting competition, announced on 23 November 2009 that Elkhorn Ranch & Resort Ltd (“Elkhorn”), a Manitoba-based company (...)

Introduction Canada’s Competition Bureau (“Bureau”), an independent enforcement agency that protects and promotes competition, reached agreement with Clean Harbors, Inc. (“Clean Harbors”) on 27 July 2009 on its proposed acquisition of Eveready, Inc. (“Eveready”) by requiring the company to divest (...)