Archive for the 'News' 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
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).
November 11, 2014
Guest post by Shannon Harell
(Information Law Group)
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has been very active in its enforcement efforts in the past couple of months. In addition to other actions which we have blogged about, the FTC recently sent dozens of warning letters to advertisers in two separate efforts. In September, the FTC sent letters admonishing companies for their failure to make adequate disclosures in an effort dubbed “Operation Full Disclosure.” Then, in October, the FTC sent letters to companies for their potentially misleading “oxo degradable” claims in violation of the FTC’s Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (or “Green Guides”).
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.
October 20, 2014
On October 16, 2014, the OECD published a new Competition Assessment Toolkit discussing government restraints on competition and ways that local governments can remove barriers while still achieving policy objectives.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
