Archive for the 'Competition Bureau' Category
January 23, 2015
Guest post by Mark Nicholson, Kelley McKinnon,
Davit Akman & Zoe Pallare (Gowlings)
On Jan. 22, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released the long anticipated decision in Tervita Corp. v. Canada (Commissioner of Competition) in which it considered, for the first time, the analytical framework for prevention of competition cases and the statutory efficiency defence.
December 9, 2014
Earlier today, Canada’s Minister of Industry James Moore announced that the Federal Government had tabled a new bill (the Price Transparency Act (Bill C-49)) in Parliament for first reading, which would amend the federal Competition Act (the “Act”) to address so-called “unjustified” Canada/U.S. price discrimination.
November 25, 2014
Misleading advertising is squarely part of Canadian competition law. Violation of the Competition Act’s civil or criminal misleading advertising provisions can also lead to significant liability for companies or individuals. As a recent reminder of this, the Competition Bureau has announced that water heater supplier National Home Services (National) has agreed to pay a $7 million penalty for alleged false or misleading claims made by its sales agents.
November 25, 2014
Earlier today, the Competition Bureau launched a new advocacy publication entitled The Competition Advocate. In this welcome new initiative, by the Bureau’s also new Competition Promotion Branch, it joins other antitrust agency advocacy publications including the U.S. FTC’s Competition Matters blog.
November 13, 2014
Performance claims remain a popular advertising strategy for many brands. These can include statements about a product’s speed, reliability or other performance. Performance claims in Canada, however, are subject to both the “general misleading advertising” sections of the Competition Act (Act) and a stand-alone performance claims provision (section 74.01(1)(b) of the Act).
October 31, 2014
This is the second of three posts with our conference materials from the recent Canadian Society of Association Executives’ (CSAE) Annual Conference in Niagara (for the first post see below). I presented with Mark Katz from Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto. This post discusses competition law issues that can arise in the context of association codes of ethics, some recent key cases and best practices to minimize risk in relation to association codes.
October 30, 2014
I was pleased to have been a speaker at the Canadian Society of Association Executives’ (CSAE) Annual Conference in Niagara. I spoke, with Mark Katz of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, on information exchanges and surveys, codes of ethics and recent competition law developments for associations. The following is the first of three posts with our conference materials – an overview of competition law and surveys, recent Competition Bureau statements on information exchanges and some best practices.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
