The Canadian Competition Bureau has announced revised draft Enforcement Guidelines on the Abuse of Dominance Provisions for comments. The revised draft Guidelines are available on the Bureau’s Website. The Guidelines provide a concise overview of the Bureau’s enforcement approach to the abuse of dominance provisions.

The Canadian Competition Bureau on Wednesday published revised guidelines describing its approach to administering a two-stage merger review process, providing increased guidance on the process of issuing supplementary information requests.

The Competition Bureau of Canada recentlyannounced the first conviction under Canada’s new criminal price-fixing law and posted a backgrounder on its investigation involving polyurethane foam.

  Following extensive consultations conducted across Canada in 2010 and 2011, as well as consultations with foreign competition agencies, and a focused internal review, the Canadian Competition Bureau has announced the publication of the final Merger Enforcement Guidelines (MEGs)/Fusions — Lignes directrices pour l’application de la loi

  The Competition Bureau has released the results of its review of recent developments in certain self-regulated professions to remove unnecessary restrictions on competition. The assessment, entitled “Self-regulated Professions: Post-study Assessment”. The purpose of this Post-Study Assessment is to review and assess progress made in implementing the recommendations contained in the Bureau’s 2007 Professions Study […]

  The Canadian Competition Bureau recently released a summary of its Merger Remedies Study on the effectiveness of remedies obtained between 1995 and 2005.

  The Canadian Competition Bureau has issued draft revised Merger Enforcement Guidelines for public comment.  Le Bureau de la concurrence sollicite les commentaires du public au sujet de la version révisée provisoire du document intitulé Fusions — Lignes directrices pour l’application de la loi.

  The Canadian Competition Bureau offers a pamphlet-style quick guide to the abuse of market power in Canada, including basic information about the abuse of dominant position sections of the Competition Act.  Also available in French.

  The Canadian Competition Bureau has announced plans to revise its Merger Enforcement Guidelines.

  The Competition Bureau (Canada) recently announced that it will host a series of roundtables to discuss the merits of revising the Bureau’s Merger Enforcement Guidelines.  The purpose of the roundtables will be to assess whether the guidelines accurately reflect the Bureau’s current merger review practices, as well as other legal and economic developments, including […]