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The Competition Act (French: Loi sur la concurrence) is a Canadian federal law governing competition in Canada. The Act contains both criminal and civil provisions aimed at preventing anti-competitive practices in the marketplace .
General Motors of Canada Limited v City National Leasing: Citations: 1989 CanLII 133 (SCC), [1989] 1 SCR 641: Docket No. 19724 [1] Prior history: APPEAL from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal, (1986), 28 DLR (4th) 158, allowing in part an appeal from a judgment of Rosenberg J, (1984), 12 DLR (4th) 273. Ruling
The Competition Bureau investigated the purchase as a violation of the Competition Act. The Competition Tribunal held that Southam violated section 92 of the Competition Act and ordered the company to sell off one of the papers. The Tribunal found that the newspapers were not in the same market with regards to print advertising markets. There ...
In 1986, the Government of Canada enacted major reforms of Canada's competition law by introducing simultaneously the Competition Tribunal Act [7] and the Competition Act, [8] the latter of which would replace the Combines Investigation Act. [5] [6] The Competition Act dissolved the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission and created the ...
However, with the Conservative government's defeat in 1935, the new Liberal administration immediately referred the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission Act to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Act was thereby replaced by the 1937 Combines Investigation Act. [2] The Combines Investigation Act was again amended in 1946 and 1949. In 1950, the ...
Under the Competition Act, the Commissioner can launch inquiries, challenge civil and merger matters before the Competition Tribunal, make recommendations on criminal matters to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, and intervene as a competition advocate before federal and provincial bodies.
The company was charged with five counts of false or misleading advertising contrary to s. 36(1)(a) [now s. 60(2)] of the Competition Act. [2] The charge was a hybrid offence that could be either an indictment consisting of a fine at the discretion of the court and to imprisonment for five years or to both, or a summary conviction consisting of ...
Re Board of Commerce Act 1919 and the Combines and Fair Prices Act 1919, [1] commonly known as the Board of Commerce case, is a Canadian constitutional decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in which the "emergency doctrine" under the federal power of peace, order and good government was first created.