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Canada’s new competition law
Budget 2009 includes the most significant amendments to the Competition Act in a generation:
• A new “per se” conspiracy offence makes it illegal for competitors or potential competitors to fix prices, allocate markets, or control production of a product, even if there is no effect on competition…and more…

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Canada’s first class action alleging vertical price maintenance may have far reaching consequences for Canadian manufacturers and distributors.

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2007 was the year of the guideline. The Competition Bureau issued six guidelines and bulletins, some in draft, some in final form.

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Canada Pipe Company Ltd. and the Competition Bureau have settled their long running dispute over the rebate program offered by Canada Pipe to its distributors by filing a consent agreement with the Competition Tribunal. This brings to an end an abuse of dominance case begun in 2002.

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The US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division has lost its fight to evict Stolt-Nielsen S.A. from its immunity program.

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