Since 2022, there have been three waves of amendments to the Competition Act resulting in the most significant revisions to Canada’s competition laws in over a decade.  The most recent suite of changes received royal assent on June 20, 2024. The cumulative impact of these amendments fundamentally changes the Canadian competition law landscape and companies will need to assess how they apply to their business practices, mergers, joint ventures and advertising activities.
 
This resource hub provides information about the three waves of amendments and sets out the current state of play of Canadian competition law – including:

• new rights for private parties to bring applications directly to the Competition Tribunal;
• strengthened greenwashing provisions;
• new prohibitions on wage fixing and no-poach agreements;
• increased penalties for civilly reviewable matters;
• addition of non-competitor collaborations and other changes to the competitor collaboration provisions; and
• changes to the merger review regime and abuse of dominance provisions.