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In 1985, the conservative government of Brian Mulroney replaced the Combines Investigation Act, 1923, with the Competition Act, which came into effect on June 19, 1986. [1] [7] [2] The provisions in this Act regarding civil mergers, which deal with both horizontal and vertical mergers, replaced the ineffectual Criminal Code provisions under which only a handful of cases were brought between ...
Full case name: 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 ...
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.
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 ...
The accused applied to the Supreme Court of Canada and was rejected the first time but was accepted on a second appeal. The issue before the Court was whether s. 37.3(2) of the Competition Act violated s. 7 of the Charter (which safeguards the "security of the person").
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