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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
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 ...
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 ...
Canada (Director of Investigation and Research) v Southam Inc, [1997] 1 S.C.R. 748 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on judicial review.In this case the Court first set out the standard of review of "reasonableness simpliciter", which directs the court to only review decisions that are "not supported by any reasons that can stand up to a somewhat probing examination".
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.
Reference re constitutional validity of the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act, 1934 CanLII 72, [1934] SCR 659 (6 June 1934) Century Services Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2010 SCC 60, [2010] 3 SCR 379 (16 December 2010) Sun Indalex Finance, LLC v. United Steelworkers, 2013 SCC 6, [2013] 1 SCR 271 (1 February 2013) Newfoundland and ...
Fraser, the Court assessed the challenged law on a standard of "substantial impossibility": a law would not violate section 2(d) unless it "has the effect of making it impossible to act collectively to achieve workplace goals." At issue in MPAO were federal labour laws governing public sector employees. One of the challenged laws excluded RCMP ...