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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 .
The Business Council of Canada President and CEO, Goldy Hyder, said officials had promised that any changes to the Competition Act would be done only after comprehensive consultations with all impacted stakeholders, but the amendments "came as an ambush" without adequate consultation or parliamentary debate. [4]
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 ...
the Combines Investigation Act, either in whole or in part, was intra vires Parliament under s. 91(2) of the Constitution Act, 1867, and; s. 31.1 of the Act [5] (which created a civil cause of action) was integrated with the Act in such a way that it too was intra vires under s. 91(2)
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.
But after the economic reforms in 1991, this legislation was found to be obsolete in many aspects and as a result, a new competition law in the form of the Competition Act, 2002 was enacted in 2003. The Competition Commission of India, is the quasi judicial body established for enforcing provisions of the Competition Act. [41]
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