Welcome to the January issue of
Blakes Competitive
Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group.
Blakes
Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments
in Canadian competition law, including updates on enforcement
activity by the Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau), recent
initiatives and key trends.
Key Highlights
While the number of completed merger reviews by the Bureau
during COVID-19 remains significantly below 2019 levels, there has
been an uptick from the reduced activity levels seen earlier in the
pandemic, with an 89 per cent increase in the monthly average of
completed merger reviews since the beginning of Q3 2020.