Trudeau planning changes to Canada's competition laws — via financialpost Economy budget2022
, the government said it will make a series of “legislative amendments” to update the Competition Act for the digital era. As part of those changes, the government promised to tackle anti-competitive conspiracies between competitors that hurt workers. For some, the line was a hint that a fix could finally be coming for Canada’s limp approach to wage fixing.
Federal Liberal backbencher Nathaniel Erskine-Smith during a news conference in Toronto on July 22, 2016.In a parliamentary hearing into the scandal in 2020, Erskine-Smith sparred with executives from Loblaw Companies Ltd., Metro Inc., and Sobeys’ parent company Empire Co. Ltd. “How can you in good conscience put profits before people in a pandemic?” he said, after asking each executive to list their multi-million-dollar salaries.
Those types of agreements can be considered positive if, say, a group of independents pool their resources to buy supplies in bulk as a way of keeping prices lower for consumers. So in the civil stream, the bureau has to prove the behaviour hurt competition. In criminal cases, it’s considered a given that the behaviour is anti-competitive, so the bureau doesn’t have to prove it.
for competition reform in Canada, arguing the law is toothless, outdated, and out of step with the U.S. and other allies.Article contentto look at improving the Competition Act, including “tackling wage fixing agreements.”
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