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New conspiracy and competitor collaborations laws come into force

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 12 2010

Effective March 12, 2010, Canada's new dual-track regime - comprised of a criminal track and an administrative civil track - for conspiracies and collaborations between competitors comes into force

Criminal competition law developments in 2010

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • January 10 2011

Criminal competition law investigations and prosecutions were once more at the forefront of Canada's Competition Bureau and global antitrust regulators in 2010

“Criminals” get a better deal - the statutory double standard for prohibition orders in criminal matters vs. reviewable matters under the Competition Act

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • October 6 2010

As the popular saying goes, all good things eventually come to an end

Criminal competition law developments - quarterly update

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • April 7 2011

In this quarterly update on criminal competition law and related developments, we provide highlights on significant issues in Canada and the U.S

Pack your compliance program with your passport - foreign corruption and competition risks for firms doing business internationally

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 27 2012

In June 2011, Niko Resources Ltd., a TSX-listed oil and gas exploration and production company, was convicted on charges laid under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) and fined $9.5 million

Criminal charges laid for alleged breach of merger consent agreement

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • September 18 2012

On September 11, 2012, the Competition Bureau announced that it laid criminal charges under section 66 of the Competition Act against Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. and its subsidiary BFI Canada Inc. for “multiple breaches” of a June 2010 consent agreement with the Bureau

Mandatory prison sentences for some competition offences begin November 20

  • Norton Rose Canada LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • November 20 2012

Starting November 20, 2012, an individual convicted of making an anti-competitive agreement with a competitor or misleading representations to the public can be punished with prison time, instead of community service, when found guilty of violating certain criminal provisions of the Competition Act

Canada signals new approach to sentencing for antitrust offences

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 10 2012

A recent sentencing decision, coupled with amendments just enacted to the sentencing provisions of the Criminal Code, means that tougher times may lie ahead for directors, officers and employees implicated in price-fixing and bid-rigging offences

Competition Bureau to introduce formal leniency program for criminal offences

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 28 2008

In October 2007, the Competition Bureau announced key changes to its successful Immunity Program, which had been introduced in 2000

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