August 16, 2010
What is the scope of Canada’s new conspiracy regime?
Canada now has three new criminal conspiracy offences for “hard core” cartel conduct, making bare price fixing, market allocation and supply restriction agreements per se illegal – i.e., without the necessity of establishing any anti-competitive effects on a relevant market (or markets). At the same time, a second civil provision has come into force under which other commercial agreements (i.e., agreements that do not fall within the scope of the new criminal offences) may be subject to review, where they prevent or lessen competition substantially.
July 15, 2010
The Competition Bureau announced today that yet more criminal charges have been laid in the ongoing Quebec gasoline price-fixing case against twenty-five individuals and three companies. The accused are alleged to have fixed the price of gasoline at the pump in several regions of Quebec including Victoriaville, Thetford Mines and Sherbrooke.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
