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Competition Bureau releases updated guidance on enforcement approach to property controls

The CPC Guidance published by the Competition Bureau advocates that firms use property controls only where justified.

The amended Canadian Competition Act: what businesses need to know

Following a series of high-profile amendments aimed at strengthening Canada’s competition law regime culminating in royal assent for Bill C-59 on...

Commercial agreements: a new legal framework

For almost 40 years, only agreements between competitors (actual or potential) to rig bids, fix prices, allocate markets or restrict output and...

Leading firms and oligopolies: beware

The competition law landscape for businesses holding a dominant market position, as well as those operating within oligopolistic markets, has...

Increased rigour in merger enforcement

The Canadian merger review regime under the Competition Act (the Act) has undergone significant change from a substantive, technical and procedural...