Affleck Greene McMurtry partner David Vaillancourt recently appeared as a panelist at the Canadian Bar Association’s 2024 Fall Competition Law Conference. The conference touched on numerous recent amendments to the Competition Act. David presented on a panel called “Scholars’ Panel – How to Calculate the “Benefit Derived” from Anticompetitive Conduct?” He argued that the compensation under the new private right of access for abuse of dominance must fairly compensate competitors that have been injured by anticompetitive conduct. David will be preparing an article for publication on this topic in a forthcoming edition of the Canadian Competition Law Review journal. [more] Full article
The Government of Canada is in the process of conducting the first detailed review of the Competition Act in over a decade. This detailed review comes on the heels of ... [more] Full article
David Vaillancourt was invited by the C.D. Howe Institute to submit an “Intelligence Memo” concerning his views on a private right of access for abuse of dominance proceedings in Canada. ... [more] Full article
In a public version of its complaint to the Canadian Competition Commissioner (see below), Internet re-seller TekSavvy says that Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Canada have been abusing their dominant ... [more] Full article
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