Archive for the 'Publications' Category
March 13, 2014
A new competition/antitrust law compliance text caught my eye today, entitled: The Executive’s Antitrust Guide to Pricing: Understanding Implications of Typical Marketing, Distribution, and Pricing Practices (Brian Moran, Lee Simowitz; Thomson Reuters) (see: here).
March 11, 2014
In one of the more interesting local competition stories I’ve begun to follow, Toronto is proposing to liberalize the operation of food trucks in the City. According to a new City of Toronto staff report, rosily entitled “New Opportunities for Toronto’s Street Food Vendors”, the new food truck proposal is intended to provide “new opportunities for street food vendors across the City and more choices to the public for a diverse street food experience”.
March 6, 2014
Readers of my blog will know that I like competition, a lot (and that I like regulation, well, a lot less). While I make my livelihood from regulation (I am a lawyer after all), my view is that most markets are better off driven by the market not regulators – that’s just my view, and obviously there’s a lot of debate over where the regulatory line should be (and different considerations in different industries).
March 3, 2014
In what can only be described as a somewhat sobering announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced earlier today that a former prime contractor manager has been sentenced to serve 14 years in prison in an ongoing bid-rigging, fraud and kickback case. According to the DoJ, this is the longest sentence ever imposed in the U.S. involving an antirust crime.
March 3, 2014
It seems to me that competition law issues are in the media a lot more over the past few years. And so they should be (ok that’s my, slightly, biased view as a competition lawyer), given that competition affects virtually every decision Canadian consumers make – from buying groceries, to filling up the car, to cell phone plans to choice of where to buy their beer (a recent bugaboo for me of late, the liquor retailing debate).
March 3, 2014
Earlier today, following its recent Global Forum on Competition, the OECD has published an interesting new report with international contributions on corruption and competition entitled Fighting Corruption and Promoting Competition. This new report includes submissions from Canada (the Competition Bureau) as well as a number of other leading jurisdictions including the United States.
February 28, 2014
Guest post by Burt Braverman
(Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)
Virtually every industry, from telecommunications to agriculture, has benefited from standard-setting organizations (SSOs), whose collaborative work can advance technology, promote health and safety, and enhance quality and efficiency. From an antitrust perspective, by facilitating comparability and interoperability, SSOs can lessen barriers to entry, increase competition, reduce costs, and thus serve consumer welfare. It’s no wonder that courts and antitrust enforcement agencies have recognized SSOs’ pro-competitive qualities and the contributions they make to our nation’s economy. But on occasion, some SSOs have been accused of having a dark side, and of serving as a vehicle by which corporate members can use leadership positions within the SSO to promote their own interests and harm competitors.
February 28, 2014
On my daily media sweep I read what I thought was a very good critique by Don Cayo (Vancouver Sun) of Canada’s current dairy industry, and in particular raising questions (yet again) as to whether supply management makes sense in Canada (see: Canada’s dairy monopoly costs families $276 a year).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
