ARTICLE · 07 OCTOBER 2026
Competition Law: Doing Business In Canada 2026
Canada's Competition Act establishes a comprehensive framework governing anti-competitive conduct, merger regulation, and deceptive marketing practices. This guide examines the criminal sanctions for price-fixing and bid-rigging, civil remedies for abuse of dominant position, mandatory pre-merger notification thresholds, and enforcement mechanisms available to both the Commissioner of Competition and private parties.
CanadaAntitrust/Competition Law
This chapter is part of our Doing Business in Canada guide, designed to help global investors navigate the legal, regulatory and strategic considerations that affect investment decisions, execution, and long-term success in Canada.
Competition Law
The federal Competition Act (Act) provides for criminal sanctions against persons involved in certain anti-competitive or deceptive conduct. This includes agreements with competitors to fix prices, restrict supply, or allocate customers or markets; agreements between unaffiliated employers to fix or control wages or other terms and conditions of employment (wage-fixing), or not to solicit or hire each other’s employees (no-poach agreements); and conduct such as bid-rigging, deceptive telemarketing, or willful or reckless misleading advertising.A civil regime regulates the less egregious forms of misleading advertising. The Act also contains non-criminal provisions that allow the Competition Tribunal, on application by the Commissioner of
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