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Year in review: antitrustcompetition & marketing 2012

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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April 9 2013

The principal Canadian competition law theme in 2012, as with the year before, was enforcement. Among other things, the Competition

Dramatic conclusion to six months of uncertainty under the Investment Canada Act: government approves two acquisitions by state owned enterprises and issues new SOE guidance

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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December 8 2012

Yesterday, Canada’s Industry Minister announced that he had approved, under the Investment Canada Act, the proposed acquisitions by CNOOC, a Chinese stated-owned enterprise (“SOE”) of Nexen, an oil and gas company with significant oil sands assets, and Petronas, a Malaysian SOE of Progress Energy, a natural gas producer

Amendment to Investment Canada Act will allow greater ministerial disclosure

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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May 2 2012

Bill C-38, the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, which was given first reading on April 26, 2012, contains a proposed amendment to the Investment Canada Act to allow the Industry Minister to publicly disclose the fact that he has sent a preliminary notice to a foreign investor that he is not satisfied that the foreign investor’s proposed investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada

Antitrustcompetition & marketing year-in-review: Canada 2011

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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February 29 2012

2011 was all about enforcement

Prime Minister sheds light on Canada’s foreign investment policy

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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November 22 2011

During a September interview with Bloomberg Business, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper provided additional insight into the role that the regulation of foreign investment will continue to play in Canada and, in particular, as to how the Investment Canada Act will be administered by his majority government

Conservative majority government: implications for the Investment Canada Act, foreign ownership rules in telecommunications, and the Competition Act

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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May 13 2011

The May 2, 2011 Canadian federal election resulted in the Conservative Party forming its long sought majority government (now with 167 seats in the House of Commons, up from 143 seats

Canada Consumer Product Safety Act: mandatory product recall bill finally becomes law

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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December 15 2010

Almost 3 years to the day that Prime Minister Stephen Harper first announced his Food and Consumer Product Safety Action Plan proposing a series of initiatives to modernize and strengthen Canada's safety system for food, health and consumer products, Bill C-36, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA), was finally passed by the Canadian Senate on December 13, 2010

New incident reporting obligations under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (Bill c-36)

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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November 19 2010

When enacted, section 14 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) will require each supplier, regardless as to whether the supplier is the manufacturer, the importer, the distributor or the retailer of the consumer product in Canada, to report to the Minister of Health (and to the person, if any, who supplied the product to such supplier) all information in its control regarding any "incident" related to such consumer product within two days of such supplier becoming aware of the incident

Industry minister rejects BHP bid for Potash Corp: lessons learned

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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November 9 2010

On November 3, 2010, the Canadian Minister of Industry, Tony Clement, announced his rejection of BHP's proposed acquisition of Potash Corp

Potential exists for significant penalties under Canada Consumer Product Safety Act

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Canada
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November 8 2010

On June 9, 2010 the third incarnation of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) was placed before Parliament in the form of Bill C-36

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