In November 2020, the Competition Bureau hosted its first
annual
, which saw
the Bureau and its international counterparts discuss strategies
and tools for adapting to emerging competition enforcement issues
in the digital economy.
The Digital Enforcement Summit focused on enforcement
issues faced by competition agencies from the pre-investigation
stage of potential anti-competitive activity to the resolution
stage. Notable highlights from the discussions
include:
Enforcement agencies are leveraging technologies like cloud
computing and natural language processing to gather evidence in
response to difficulties in detecting anti-competitive activity in
digital markets;
Changes to competition laws and regulations are perceived as
necessary to give competition agencies the tools necessary to