Two gasoline retailers and five individuals have pleaded guilty to fixing the price of gasoline in Belleville, Ontario, and Victoriaville, Quebec, the Competition Bureau announced today. Suncor Energy Products Inc. (Sunoco) pleaded guilty to fixing the price of gas in Belleville, Ontario, from May to November 2007, and was sentenced to a fine of $500,000. [...]
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The Insurance Bureau of Canada must continue to supply the Used Car Dealers Association of Ontario with claims data pending the hearing of UCDA's application for a permanent order that IBC continue to supply this data, the Competition Tribunal ruled on March 16. UCDA is a trade association representing 4,500 Ontario car dealers. Its Auto [...]
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Canadian Tire Corporation, Mr. Gas, and Pioneer Energy LP pleaded guilty to fixing the retail price of gasoline in Kingston and Brockville from May to November 2007. They were fined a total of $2 million. See the Competition Bureau press release.
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Review of major Canadian Competition Law developments over the past year, including: Criminal, Reviewable Matters, Mergers, Marketing Practices, Private Enforcement, The Long Arm of US Antitrust, Across the Pond
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By Michael Osborne, Fiona Campbell, Christopher Somerville, and Brigid Wilkinson, Student-at-Law
March 19th, 2012
Competition Law, Criminal Matters, Indirect purchasers, Mergers, Private Actions, Year in Review / The Litigator (Print Edition)
Democracy and the rule of law are cornerstones of the Canadian constitution. These concepts have been appealed to by both sides in the dispute over the Harper government’s plan to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly, and have resulted in two conflicting court decisions. In December, a Federal Court judge said that the government’s plan [...]
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