Media

"Ottawa has formally launched a long-promised consultation on updating Canada’s competition laws, a review that comes against the backdrop of high-profile files including a trial over the Rogers-Shaw merger and a study about high grocery prices."

"One of the biggest corporate mergers in Canada’s history is about to face its hardest test, as antitrust lawyers square off in court to decide the fate of a deal between two billionaire cable families."

"The proposed Rogers-Shaw merger was back in the news last week as Canadian Industry minister Francois Philippe Champagne held a mid-week press conference to announce that the original deal was dead, but that a reworked deal that brings in Videotron might be a possibility if certain government expectations on restrictions on transferring spectrum licences and consumer pricing outside of Quebec were met."

"Rogers Communications Inc. is preparing for the fight it had been trying to avoid -- a hearing at Canada’s Competition Tribunal over its proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc."

“The institutions that make up the foundation of Canada’s competition laws concentrate the future of the field in too few hands and appear to be straining to meet their mandates. If Canada is to truly make competition a pillar of its economic policy, these institutions will need to change to meet the needs of a more active and vibrant competition law ecosystem.”