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20 Mar 2020

The Canadian Competition Authority is scrutinising competition law compliance and companies taking advantage of consumers by engaging in price fixing and misleading claims about products during the COVID-19 outbreak

W. Michael G. Osborne, Chris Hersh • Preview

The Competition Bureau is watching for evidence of companies taking advantage of consumers by making false or misleading claims about a product’s ability to combat COVID-19 or engaging in price fixing, the Commissioner of Competition warned in a recent statement. The Commissioner added that (...)

18 Mar 2020

The Canadian Competition Authority issues letter to the Canadian Bar Association regarding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operations

Canadian Competition Bureau • Preview

Letter from the Commissioner to the Canadian Bar Association regarding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic* GATINEAU, March 18, 2020 – Today, the Commissioner of Competition issued an open letter to executive members of the Canadian Bar Association’s Competition Law Section providing information on (...)

20 Feb 2020

The Canadian Competition Authority receives a complaint for abuse of dominance in the internet services market (Teksavvy / Bell / Rogers)

Michael I. Binetti • March 2020

TekSavvy Claims That Bell And Rogers Abuse Their Dominant Position For Internet Services* In a public version of its complaint to the Canadian Competition Commissioner (see below), Internet re-seller TekSavvy says that Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Canada have been abusing their (...)

13 Feb 2020

The Canadian Competition Authority fines $1.3 million for allegedly failing to adequately disclose the full price of tickets in the online ticket seller market (StubHub)

Steve Szentesi • March 2020

The Price, the Whole Price and Nothing But the Price: StubHub Pays $1.3 Million Penalty Following Bureau Drip Pricing Probe* The Competition Bureau’s (Bureau) top priority for enforcement and advocacy is currently the digital economy (see, for example, here, here, here, here and here). And for (...)

19 Dec 2019

The Canadian Commissioner of Competition files an application with the Competition Tribunal challenging the acquisition by an undertaking of a primary grain elevator (P&H / Virden Elevator / Louis Dreyfus)

Mark Katz • December 2019

HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUGHTY: CANADA’S COMPETITION COMMISSIONER DELIVERS LUMPS OF COAL TO MERGING PARTIES* In his own version of the pre-holiday rush, the Canadian Commissioner of Competition challenged one merger transaction just before the Christmas holidays and entered into a consent (...)

19 Dec 2019

The Canadian Competition Bureau announces that agencies and brands involved in influencer marketing have to comply with the Competition Act

Steve Szentesi • December 2019

INFLUENCER ADVERTISING: COMPETITION BUREAU INCREASES PRESSURE ON BRANDS AND AGENCIES TO COMPLY WITH THE COMPETITION ACT* Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Competition Bureau’s new guidelines for influencer advertising. While the Bureau’s new guidelines (...)

1 Nov 2019

Gun Jumping in Merger Control. A Jurisdictional Guide, Catriona HATTON, Yves COMTOIS and Andrea HAMILTON (dir.), foreword by Richard WHISH

Richard Whish • N° 4-2019 • pp. 234-235

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

28 Oct 2019

The Canadian Competition Bureau takes steps against misleading representations in online sales of airline tickets (FlightHub)

Gavin Murphy • October 2019

The old adage appears to ring true yet again: If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Canada’s Competition Bureau (Bureau), which assists the Commissioner of Competition (Commissioner) in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (Act), announced on 28 October 2019 that (...)

20 Sep 2019

The Canadian Supreme Court releases its judgement in a price-fixing class action (Pioneer / Godfrey)

Kyle Taylor • September 2019

SUPREME COURT CLASS ACTION DECISION IN GODFREY* The Supreme Court of Canada released its judgment today in the price-fixing class action, Pioneer Corp. v. Godfrey, 2019 SCC 42. The Court held: Limitations The discoverability rule applies to extend the two-year limitation period in section (...)

20 Sep 2019

The Canadian Supreme Court expands the scope of potential liability in price-fixing class actions (Godfrey)

Chantelle Cseh, Derek Ricci, Maura O’Sullivan, Sandra A. Forbes • September 2019

The Supreme Court of Canada has released its long-awaited decision in two companion appeals that have significant implications for class actions alleging conduct that contravenes the criminal provisions found in Part VI of the Competition Act (Act). In its decision in Pioneer Corporation v (...)

6 Sep 2019

Gun Jumping in Merger Control: A Jurisdictional Guide CANADA

CANADA Neil Campbell (McMillan LLP) Gun Jumping In Merger Control 89 Part 1: Merger Control and the “Standstill Obligation” Please identify the relevant merger control legislation in your jurisdiction. Please provide a link to the relevant legislation (if possible, in English) and also indicate: (...)

4 Sep 2019

The Canadian Competition Authority issues a call-out for information from Canada’s business community about conduct in the digital economy that may be harmful to competition

Canadian Competition Bureau • September 2019

Competition Bureau calls for businesses to report potentially anti-competitive conduct in the digital economy* The Competition Bureau has published a call-out for information from Canada’s business community about conduct in the digital economy that may be harmful to competition. The Bureau is (...)

27 Jun 2019

The Canadian Competition Bureau announces that ticket vendors will pay $4 million penalty to settle drip pricing advertising case (Ticketmaster)

Steve Szentesi • June 2019

TICKETMASTER ENTITIES AGREE TO $4 MILLION PENALTY TO SETTLE DRIP PRICING ADVERTISING CASE On June 27, 2019, the Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced that Ticketmaster L.L.C., TNow Entertainment Group, Inc. and Ticketmaster Canada LP have agreed to pay a $4 million penalty and $500,000 of the (...)

5 juin 2019

Politique de concurrence : Les autorités de concurrence des pays du G7 et la Commission européenne trouvent un accord sur le rôle du droit de la concurrence dans l’économie numérique (Common Understanding on Competition and the Digital Economy)

Alain Ronzano • N° 3-2019

Réunis à Chantilly dans le cadre du G7 présidé par la France, les autorités de concurrence des pays du G7 (Allemagne, Canada, États-Unis, France, Italie, Japon, Royaume Uni), ainsi que la Commission ont rendu public le 18 juillet 2019 un accord — Common Understanding — sur le rôle du droit de la (...)

1^er mai 2019

Standing up for Convergence and Relevance in Antitrust, Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum

Catherine Prieto • N° 2-2019 • pp. 262-263

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

7 Mar 2019

The Canadian Competition Bureau releases its updated abuse of dominance enforcement guidelines

Canadian Competition Bureau • March 2019

The Competition Bureau released its updated Abuse of Dominance Enforcement Guidelines. The guidelines provide an overview of the Bureau’s approach to enforcing the abuse of dominance provisions of the Competition Act. In March 2018, the Bureau released a draft copy of the guidelines for public (...)

2 Feb 2019

The Canadian Competition Bureau announces its 2019 Pre-merger notification thresholds

Gavin Murphy • February 2019

Canada’s Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”), which assists the Commissioner of Competition in the administration and enforcement of the Competition Act (the “Act”), announced on 31 January 2019 that the 2019 pre-merger notification threshold for acquiring an undertaking will be $96 million (CAN), up (...)

1 Jan 2019

Frédéric Jenny Liber Amicorum The Next Frontier of International Cooperation in Competition Enforcement

John Pecman

19 Frédéric Jenny | Standing Up for Convergence and Relevance in Antitrust - Liber Amicorum -Volume I The Next Frontier of International Cooperation in Competition Enforcement John Pec MA n* duy PhAM ** Competition Bureau of Canada Abstract International cooperation among competition agencies has (...)

20 Dec 2018

The Ontario Superior Court holds that misleading informations can trigger class actions as breach of the Competition Act (Rebuck / Ford Motor)

Steve Szentesi • December 2018

Key Requirements For Misleading Advertising Civil Actions Confirmed By Ontario Superior Court* In a recent case handed down by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in Rebuck v. Ford Motor Company, the Court confirmed key requirements for commencing Competition Act misleading advertising (...)

23 Nov 2018

The Quebec Court of Appeal sentences to prison individuals found guilty of offenses in relation with bid-rigging in public construction contracts (Fedele)

Steve Szentesi • November 2018

Quebec Court of Appeal Ruling Signals that Bid-Rigging is a Serious Offence Warranting Imprisonment* A recent decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal in R c. Fedele, 2018 CarswellQue 10342 (English language summary) sends a strong signal that bid-rigging offences, particularly in respect of the (...)

22 Nov 2018

Standard-Essential Patents and Competition Law: An Overview of EU and national case law

Emily Luken, Jay Jurata • Standard Essential Patents

The extent to which competition law has shaped developments and understandings of standard-essential patents (SEPs) has increased substantially over the past fifteen years. When e-Competitions began publishing, there were very few cases and agency enforcement actions on the topic. The (...)

3 Oct 2018

The OECD Competition Committee publishes background materials on excessive prices in pharmaceutical markets

OECD • October 2018

There are strong arguments for not intervening against exploitative excessive pricing conducts, which have led to the development of stringent enforcement screens for the bringing of such cases. However, recent years have seen significant calls for intervention against high prices for (...)

27 Sep 2018

The Competition Bureau and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada launch revised immunity and leniency programs

Chris Hersh, Tegan O’Brien, W. Michael G. Osborne • September 2018

It used to be the best deal in town: participants in criminal price-fixing conspiracies could approach the Competition Bureau and receive either complete immunity or leniency in exchange for ratting out their co-conspirators. The Bureau and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) still (...)

27 Sep 2018

The Competition Bureau and the Public prosecution service of Canada revise immunity and leniency programs

Danny Urquhart • September 2018

Competition Bureau’s new “disclosure first” immunity and leniency programs take effect* Antitrust and competition On September 27 the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) launchedrevised immunity and leniency programs in relation to investigating (...)

20 Jun 2018

The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench (Canada) rules a private claim regarding a joint venture agreement between two purchasers of chemicals products (Dow Chemical Canada / Nova Chemicals Corporation)

Steve Szentesi • June 2018

Alberta Court of Queen* In a recent decision handed down by the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, in Dow Chemical Canada ULC v. NOVA Chemicals Corporation, 2018 ABQB 482 (“Dow Chemical”), the Court established both new law and confirmed earlier case law under sections 45 and 90.1 of the federal (...)

13 Jun 2018

The Canadian Court of Appeal accepts additional defendants in a price fixing class action against major banks (Mancinelli / Royal Bank of Canada)

Kyle Taylor • June 2018

Court Of Appeal Adds Banks To FX Price Fixing Class Action* In overturning a lower court decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that TD Bank and BMO would be added as defendants in a price fixing class action against major banks. The case was Mancinelli v. Royal Bank of Canada. The (...)

13 Jun 2018

The Canadian Court of Appeal clarifies the application of the discoverability principle and makes easier for plaintiffs to add defendants (Mancinelli / Royal Bank of Canada)

Steve Szentesi • June 2018

Ontario Court of Appeal Makes It Easier For Plaintiffs to Add Defendants Under Competition Act Limitation Provision* The Ontario Court of Appeal recently issued a significant decision in Mancinelli v. Royal Bank of Canada, 2018 ONCA 544 (C.A.), in which the Court clarified the application of (...)

5 Jun 2018

The Canadian Competition Bureau provides guidance on influencer marketing, made in Canada claims and savings claims

Steve Szentesi • June 2018

New Competition Bureau Guidance on Influencer Marketing, Made in Canada Claims and Savings Claims* The Competition Bureau (Bureau) has published the fourth volume of its Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest (Marketing Digest), which provides guidance from the Bureau on influencer marketing, (...)

20 Feb 2018

The Competition Bureau of Canada reaches a settlement with Canadian furniture retailers who have to donate $750 000 in furniture to charities (Leon’s and The Brick)

Michael I. Binetti • February 2018

Leon’s And The Brick Donate $750,000 In Furniture To Settle Buy Now, Pay Later Complaints* Canadian furniture retailers, Leon’s and The Brick, have agreed to donate $750,000 in furniture to charities to settle concerns raised by Canada’ Competition Bureau about their advertising of buy now, pay (...)

29 Jan 2018

The Canadian Telecom Regulator has an opportunity to effectively control online piracy based on a proposal from a coalition of telecom operators and rights holders (FairPlay Canada)

Kristian Stout • January 2018

The Canadian Parliament Has an Opportunity to Effectively Control Online Piracy In an ideal world, it would not be necessary to block websites in order to combat piracy. But we do not live in an ideal world. We live in a world in which enormous amounts of content—from books and software to (...)

25 Jan 2018

The Canadian Competition Bureau sues ticket vendors for misleading prices (Ticketmaster / Live Nation)

Michael I. Binetti • January 2018

Ticketmaster Prices Are Misleading: Competition Bureau (If You Can Get Tickets)* Following a warning in 2017 to ticket vendors that they should ensure advertised prices were accurate, Canada’s Competition Bureau sued Ticketmaster and its parent, LiveNation. The Bureau alleges that Ticketmaster (...)

24 Jan 2018

The Federal Court of Appeal of Ottawa denies the Competition Bureau public interest privilege (Vancouver Airport Authority)

Kevin Ackhurst, Danny Urquhart, D. Michael Brown • January 2018

Last April, the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) rejected arguments that the Tribunal’s longstanding approach to public interest privilege should re-evaluated and found that class privilege protected documents from disclosure that the Competition Bureau (Bureau) had collected from third parties (...)

19 Dec 2017

The Canadian Competition Bureau offers immunity in bread price-fixing probe (Loblaw / Weston)

Gavin Murphy • December 2017

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 (...)

1 Sep 2017

Extradition and antitrust law: Businessmen involved in global cartels extradited to foreign countries

Christopher Thomas, Daniel E. Shulak, Gal Rozent, Gianni de Stefano, Katherine L. Kay, Kathryn Hellings, Raz Agranat, Yoshitoshi Imoto • N° 3-2017 • pp.16-40

As more jurisdictions criminalise cartel conduct and increase cooperation with other enforcement regimes, the threat of extradition in global cartel cases is becoming more and more real. The successful extraditions, directly or indirectly related to cartel charges, so far have involved five (...)

1 May 2017

The importance of quantifying non-price effects in Canada

Ian Cass, Renée M. Duplantis • N° 2-2017 • pp. 51-57

Quantifying non-price effects is a topic with global appeal in antitrust that has garnered particular interest in merger reviews in Canada in light of the recent decisions in Tervita and TREB, especially in cases that involve an efficiencies defence. We discuss the importance of quantifying (...)

1 Feb 2017

The effects of increased globalization and regulator coordination on antitrust discovery

Chris Wall, Jennifer E. Mellott • N° 1-2017

Merger review processes for complex, multinational deals have become significantly more complicated over the past 20 years. Increased coordination among competition authorities around the world creates new considerations for parties to multinational deals, requiring them to balance the need to (...)

2 Dec 2016

The Canadian and the Hong Kong administrations sign a Competition Law memoranudm of understanding

Gavin Murphy • December 2016

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 (...)

30 Oct 2016

The EU and Canada sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) setting out provisions relating to competition policy

Daniel Schwarz, Mark C. Katz • October 2016

What does CETA mean for EU and Canadian competition policy?* Introduction With the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) having finally been signed by the EU and Canada on October 30, 2016, it’s worth exploring what it says about competition law and policy and how it may impact (...)

14 Oct 2016

The Canadian Competition Tribunal turns down leave application on refusal to deal (CarGurus)

Steve Szentesi • October 2016

Competition Tribunal Denies Car Listing Refusal to Deal Leave Application and Establishes New Price Maintenance Law* On October 14, 2016 the Canadian Competition Tribunal (“Tribunal”) released an important Competition Act (“Act”) private application leave case (see:CarGurus Inc v Trader (...)

14 Oct 2016

The Canadian Competition Tribunal denies leave to commence a private application in a refusal to deal case (CarGurus)

W. Michael G. Osborne • October 2016

Used car listing website operator CarGurus Inc.’s attempt to force rival Trader Corporation to supply it with vehicle listing data has encountered a dead end as the Competition Tribunal denied it leave to commence a private application under several provisions of the Competition Act. This (...)

1^er sept. 2016

La longue traversée vers le droit à réparation : La norme canadienne applicable aux acheteurs indirects

Karounga Diawara • Nº 3-2016 • pp. 203-212

Ce texte a pour objet de mettre en relief les contextes normatif et processuel dans et par lesquels la Cour suprême du Canada est arrivée à la reconnaissance d’un droit d’indemnisation aux acheteurs indirects victimes de pratiques anticoncurrentielles relevant de la partie VI de la loi sur la (...)

1^er sept. 2016

Droit de la concurrence – Aspects théoriques et appliqués, Karounga DIAWARA

David Bosco • Nº 3-2016 • p. 218

Cette rubrique recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes dans ces (...)

27 avr. 2016

Canada : Le tribunal de la concurrence confirme et renforce le cadre analytique d’interprétation et d’application de la disposition sur l’abus de position dominante lors d’un réexamen (The Commissioner of Competition / The Toronto Real Estate Board)

Karounga Diawara • Nº 3-2016

Le tribunal de la concurrence (“tribunal”) a rendu le 27 avril 2016 le jugement de réexamen tant attendu dans la saga judiciaire opposant l’autorité administrative canadienne de la concurrence, le commissaire, à l’association professionnelle immobilière de la grande région de Toronto, plus connue sous (...)

29 mars 2016

Canada : Le Bureau de la concurrence autorise une fusion dans le secteur de la distribution de l’essence au détail à la suite d’une médiation (Parkland)

Karounga Diawara • N° 2-2016

Le dialogue plutôt que la confrontation : tel est le précepte de base qui sous-tend la philosophie des modes de prévention et règlement des différends (PRD). S’il est commun dans le domaine du droit de la concurrence que l’autorité antitrust négocie directement avec les parties en cause pour résorber (...)

22 Feb 2016

The Supreme Court of British Columbia denies disclosure based on public interest privilege (Pro-Sys / Microsoft)

W. Michael G. Osborne • February 2016

Documents and information that the Competition Bureau collects from third parties during its investigations are protected by public interest privilege from disclosure to plaintiffs in private actions, the BC Supreme Court has ruled. The plaintiffs in a class action alleging that Microsoft (...)

15 févr. 2016

L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions La mise en oeuvre des conditions d’origine divergentes

L. Wagner – L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions 83 Chapitre 2 : La mise en œuvre des conditions d’origine divergentes La mise en oeuvre de conditions d'origine divergentes L. Wagner – L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions En droit des aides d’État, (...)

15 févr. 2016

L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions L’examen de la condition de l’avantage économique

L. Wagner – L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions 161 TITRE II LA DEMONSTRATION DE L’EXISTENCE D’UN AVANTAGE ECONOMIQUE SPECIFIQUE/SELECTIF L’approche « relativiste » et celle des « transferts financiers » ont en c ommun la recherche de l’existence d’un avantage économique (...)

15 févr. 2016

L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions La contrainte du droit des subventions sur les politiques européennes

L. Wagner – L’Union européenne et le droit international des subventions 391 Chapitre 2 La contrainte du droit des subventions sur les politiques européennes L’article XVI.4 de l’Accord instituant l’OMC prescrit une clause de conformité selon laque lle « chaque! Membre! assurera! la! conformité! (...)

5 Feb 2016

The Canadian government increases the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act

Kevin Ackhurst • February 2016

The threshold for certain pre-closing net benefit reviews under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have been increased for 2016. Competition Act Canada uses a two-part test for determining whether a pre-merger (...)

4 janv. 2016

Canada : Le Tribunal de la concurrence précise les conditions d’autorisation d’un recours privé fondé sur une pratique restrictive de commerce (Audatex Canada, ULC / CarProof)

Karounga Diawara • N° 1-2017 • pp. 234-242

Le jugement rendu par le Tribunal de la concurrence (“tribunal”), au tout début de l’année 2016, soit le 4 janvier, fournit des indications intéressantes sur la charge, le fardeau et l’étendue de la preuve que doit assumer une personne privée, prétendument victime d’une pratique restrictive de commerce (...)

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