The Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau) raised concerns in its 2023 market study of the grocery sector about the use of competitor property controls (i.e., terms in commercial leases or covenants that run with the land) to…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade, Real Estate - Commercial
This bulletin follows our previous update on evolving U.S. tax reform, which highlighted the competing House and Senate proposals, particularly the introduction and scope of proposed Section 899 targeting "unfair foreign…
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/ International Law & Trade, Taxation
The Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau) recently released the final version of its guidance titled Environmental claims and the Competition Act (Guidelines). The Guidelines follow draft guidance, released in December 2024, and…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
Do the U.S. securities law accommodations through the “foreign private issuer” (FPI) construct benefit the intended entities? That’s the fundamental question that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is analyzing in…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
On June 6, 2025 the federal government tabled Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, carrying out Prime Minister Carney’s election commitment to provide “one-window” regulatory decisions through a newly established Federal…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Indigenous Peoples, International Law & Trade
Amendments to the Canadian Competition Act (Act) that came into effect on June 20, 2025 significantly expand the rights and incentives for private parties to seek orders from the Competition Tribunal (Tribunal). Among other…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, International Law & Trade
In Opsis Airport Services Inc. v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2025 SCC 17 (Opsis), the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) held that a statute can be declared constitutionally inapplicable to an enterprise carrying on activities that…
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/ Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade, Maritime Law, Transportation
As the U.S. tax reform process continues, the comprehensive tax bill that passed the House of Representatives in May is now under active consideration in the Senate. Earlier this week, the Senate Finance Committee released its…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Taxation
The Ontario Superior Court recently refused to certify a class action against four international airlines. The plaintiff alleged that the airlines conspired to constrain capacity for transborder travel between the United States…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, International Law & Trade, Transportation
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the body responsible for enforcing Québec’s legislation concerning the financial sector, recently adopted a Self-Reporting and Cooperation Policy. The policy, adopted on May 20, 2025,…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
The Canadian securities regulators have implemented blanket orders increasing the capital-raising limit under the listed issuer financing exemption (the LIFE Exemption), which permits qualified issuers to offer equity securities…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
In response to current global economic uncertainty, the Ontario government recently tabled Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025. Bill 5 aims to streamline and accelerate the approval processes for major…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Just months after obtaining a record C$38.9-million penalty in the first fully contested drip pricing case in Canada, the Competition Bureau has initiated a new drip pricing case against Canada’s Wonderland Company, the operator…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, International Law & Trade
In this issue of Insolvency Now, we continue to report on data trends from Q3 and Q4 of 2024, during which we noticed that the number of insolvency filings had steadily decreased compared with the previous year, returning to Q2…
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/ Bankruptcy, International Law & Trade
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…
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/ Business Organizations, Environmental Law, Securities Law
