Over the past week, the Commissioner of Competition has made a
number of comments relevant to big tech companies and the digital
economy. These comments were made on a panel at the Data Forum
Discussing Competition Policy in the Digital Era in Ottawa on May
30th, at a conference hosted by the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris on June
3rd and during an interview with CBC News. The key
comments are summarized below.
Competition Bureau to Monitor Acquisitions by Big Tech
Companies
As noted in our recent blog post titled "
Competition Bureau Expands Merger Investigation
Activities", the Commissioner announced that the
Competition Bureau has placed more focus on identifying
non-notifiable mergers that could potentially raise competition law
concerns. In fact, according to the Commissioner, the Bureau has
already detected two potentially problematic non-notifiable
transactions that it is now reviewing.
