Canada’s Minister of Industry announced today that a new Commissioner of Competition, Melanie Aitken, has been appointed for a five year term.
In making the announcement, Tony Clement said:
“I am very pleased to welcome Ms. Aitken to the Competition Bureau Canada as the Commissioner of Competition” … “Her knowledge, judgment and rigour will enhance the Bureau’s work and guide its success in the years ahead.”
Ms. Aitken has held several positions at the Bureau (including most recently Interim Commissioner), joined the Bureau in 2005 as Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Competition, Mergers, was appointed Senior Deputy Commissioner, Mergers in 2007. Ms. Aitken’s previous positions have included being a partner at Bennett Jones LLP, being seconded to the Department of Justice Canada as Senior Counsel, being a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto, working as an Adjunct Law Professor of Administrative Law with Osgoode Hall Law School and of Competition Law with Queen’s University Law School.
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