John S. Tyhurst, Canadian Competition Law and Policy

Book Review

Abstract

Despite Canada holding the distinction of enacting the world’s first competition legislation in 1889, the development of its regulatory framework has followed a circuitous road. Canada’s early criminal law–based prohibitions proved largely toothless in reigning in
anti-competitive mergers and conduct before the courts, while decades of start-stop reform initiatives failed to remedy the situation. Only with the changes leading up to the 1986 Competition Act did the more economics-influenced modern regime familiar to practitioners today begin to take shape.