A recipe to overhaul Canada’s competition law
One easy change is the ability to conduct market studies. The bureau relies on co-operation from industry. When the bureau started work on grocers,this constraint would make it “a tough study for us to do.” On Tuesday, the bureau said co-operation from grocers was “not fulsome” and it wasn’t able to get “complete and precise” financial data. The bureau should have, as it has proposed, formal information-gathering powers, which is standard elsewhere.
Another central area of change is the efficiencies defence. This is a vestige of the 1980s. The way the law works is two companies can cite “efficiencies” – cost cutting, including lost jobs – as reason to justify lessened competition. Competition law elsewhere doesn’t have such a primary clause. Into Ottawa solicited by the Competition Bureau about the experiences of U.S. law, from Lina Khan, chair of the U.S.
The bureau and other experts want the efficiencies defence scrapped. Ottawa sees change here as a key part of competition reform. And, in a rare moment of federal bipartisan agreement, the Conservatives support it. The party in June
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