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Jan 18, 2024 · The Competition Act now expressly includes as an anti-competitive act “directly or indirectly imposing excessive and unfair selling prices.” The concept of excessive and unfair pricing is new to Canada’s Competition Act. 2 It is also not part of the antitrust laws of the United States, Canada’s largest trading partner. However, the ...
- Canada’s Competition Bureau Offers Guidance on Excessive and ...
As we have discussed in a prior bulletin and a more detailed...
- Canada’s Competition Bureau Offers Guidance on Excessive and ...
As we have discussed in a prior bulletin and a more detailed analysis, Canada’s Competition Act was recently amended to both (i) establish a new, more expansive framework for challenging anti-competitive conduct by dominant firms and (ii) specifically provide that it may be an anti-competitive act for a dominant firm to directly or indirectly impose excessive and unfair selling prices.
Dec 18, 2023 · Similarly, an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) can only be ordered where it is established that an anti-competitive act has had, is having or is likely to have an SLPC in a market (in which the firm(s) has a plausible competitive interest). “Excessive pricing” is now explicitly an “anti-competitive act”.
Aug 26, 2024 · While Canada’s competition law enforcement agency, the Competition Bureau, advocated for extensive amendments to the Competition Act, it did not propose that an excessive or unfair pricing provision be added to the Act. 19. A government bill to amend the Competition Act (Bill C-56), introduced on September 21, 2023, was revised during House ...
Dec 20, 2023 · Charging excessive and unfair prices only qualifies as an anti-competitive act if there’s evidence it has a predatory, exclusionary or disciplinary effect on a competitor or if it substantially ...
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Drip pricing involves offering a product or service at a price that is unattainable, because consumers must also pay additional non-government-imposed charges or fees to buy the product or service. The Commissioner has successfully taken enforcement action against this practice using the general false or misleading representations provision of the Competition Act (section 74.01).
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Jan 15, 2024 · Inclusion of Excessive Pricing as an Anti-Competitive Act: Bill C-56 has also expanded the list of anti-competitive acts in s. 78 to explicitly include “directly or indirectly imposing excessive and unfair selling prices”, which derives from the government’s attempt to clamp down on rising prices in the grocery sector and elsewhere in the Canadian economy. The explicit inclusion of ...
