Does competition law and Canada’s foreign investment review enable or hinder innovation?

CBA National Magazine

On the other side of the divide, Keldon Bester, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, welcomes the changes in competition law and doesn’t expect a huge impact on innovation investments or merger activity. He notes that the Competition Bureau intervenes on only “a razor-thin amount of merger cases,” with consent agreements accounting for less than one per cent of all mergers.