Statement | CAMP Response to the Google Search Remedies Decision

September 3, 2025 [Ottawa, ON] – This week, after finding that Google maintained an illegal monopoly in online search, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta declined to dismantle that monopoly, instead ordering a remedy that is likely to have little effect on competition in the critical market. In particular, despite finding that Google’s multi-billion dollar revenue sharing arrangements with companies like Apple had reinforced its illegal monopoly, Judge Mehta preserved the ability of Google to maintain these anti-competitive moats. The Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project (CAMP) has released the following statement in response to the decision.

“After five years of hard work on the part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Google Search decision is an unfortunate reminder of the preference for monopoly in the U.S. court system,” said Keldon Bester, Executive Director of CAMP. “Deciding to preserve a monopoly you determined to be illegally maintained signals that other monopolists are free to operate with impunity at the cost of citizens around the world. While an appeal of the decision is still possible, the outcome of the U.S. DOJ’s Google Search trial is a reminder that we cannot simply wait for our international peers to solve the problem of monopoly for us.”