The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is pausing its work on climate-related and diversity-related disclosure rules in order “to support Canadian markets and issuers as they adapt to the recent developments in the U.S....more
Canada’s Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) recently released its reasons in the first contested case to apply the amended misleading representations provisions of the Competition Act (Act). The Tribunal’s decision assessed...more
Following the Canadian Competition Bureau’s 2023 Retail Grocery Market Study in which it recommended that provincial and territorial governments take measures to limit property controls in the grocery industry, including...more
8/20/2024
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Anti-Competitive ,
Canada ,
Commercial Leases ,
Competition ,
Competition Act ,
Enforcement ,
Landlords ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Shopping Centers ,
Tenants
Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (Minister) recently issued a Ministerial Statement on Net Benefit Reviews of Canadian Critical Minerals Companies. Transactions involving important Canadian mining...more
The Canadian government has prioritized the promotion of the domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry, with the objective of establishing Canada as a leader in the global end-to-end EV supply chain. This effort includes...more
Parliament recently passed Bill C-59 (the Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023), which include important changes to Canada’s Competition Act, many of which are now in force. These amendments follow the already...more
6/24/2024
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Canadian Competition Act ,
Competition Authorities ,
Environmental Policies ,
Market-Sharing ,
Merger Reviews ,
Notification Requirements ,
Premerger Notifications ,
Private Right of Action ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
Size of Transaction Test ,
Tribunals
Substantial amendments to the Investment Canada Act (ICA) were enacted on March 22, 2024, with the passing of Bill C-34, the National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act. These amendments, long in the works, will...more
Canada’s Competition Act was amended effective December 15, 2023 to both (i) establish a new, more expansive framework for challenging anti-competitive conduct by dominant firms and (ii) specifically provide that it is an...more
1/19/2024
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Amended Rules ,
Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Canada ,
Competition ,
Competition Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
EU ,
Material Adverse Effects ,
OECD ,
Patent Act ,
Penalties ,
The Copyright Act ,
Trademark Act ,
Unfair Pricing
With royal assent to Bill C-56, The Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, occurring on December 15, 2023, important changes to Canada’s competition law framework came into force.
The amendments that came into effect...more
The government announced significant additional amendments to Canada’s Competition Act in late November 2023, building on those already under consideration by Parliament in Bill C-56 and others enacted in 2022. More...more
12/7/2023
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Anti-Competitive ,
Canada ,
Competition ,
Competition Act ,
Competition Authorities ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenwashing ,
Private Right of Action ,
Remedies ,
Size of Transaction Test ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
Canada’s Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, delivered the federal government’s Fall Economic Statement (FES) on November 21, 2023, in which she announced the government’s intention to introduce “generational changes to...more