Competition Act

So the court will determine here whether Canadian courts can assume jurisdiction over an alleged foreign price-fixing class action on the basis that the price-fixing conspiracy had effect within Canada.

So specifically, the court's really asked to interpret the Competition Act, so our colleagues in that bar will be very interested.

Uh, and whether or not it, we...

The question really is whether the section of the Competition Act can be used to recover civil damages for an alleged conspiracy form and implemented abroad.

So very interesting issue stemming out of British Columbia, but we have several interveners in this case, about eight of them-

Wow

Unfortunately, what you can't see is Mark Carney looking, well, uncomfortable behind her.

That agreement has delivered major wins for Alberta, including, of course, an agreement to an- advance an, an oil pipeline to Asian markets, a commitment to, from the federal government not to proceed with a federal oil and gas emissions cap so that our energy producers can thrive again, abeyance of the federal clean electricity regulations in Alberta, which would have placed our electrical grid at serious risk of failure and limited our industry's ability to grow in the fu- in the future, an impact assessment agreement to streamline project reviews, reduce duplication, and reinforce provincial jurisdiction, suspension of the federal zero emission vehicle mandate, and of course, removal of the greenwashing provisions in the Competition Act.

[laughs] I mean, that's a lot of Ws for Premier Smith there.

She's, she's done well out of this agreement.

We've been focusing in on the retail grocery space for some time.

This is something that was brought to our attention, and we're looking to find out the facts to determine exactly whether or not these policies that could be applied do run offside the Competition Act.

And if they do, we won't hesitate to take action necessary.

We've got the big retailers throughout Canada, but then you've also got your smaller.

We don't set rules.

We don't create laws.

We look at conduct, and if we do find conduct that breaches the Competition Act, we take the action that's necessary.

We also highlight information for the general public, like we've done in this call-out, letting them know about this particular practice and seeking information from them overall.

Yeah, so we are what's called an industry association.

So under the particular Competition Act regulations, industry associations exist to advocate on behalf of the entire industry that they represent.

So we represent 16 different brands.

across the country.

The company will still be entirely bound by Canadian law.

It has to clear the Federal Competition Act to ensure it doesn't create some unfair monopoly.

And most importantly, the entire operation falls squarely under the Retail Payment Activities Act.

Meaning they are directly supervised by the Bank of Canada.

As an example, going to nine and two? You can't really say that

because we can't say that there's, we're not allowed to say it's against the Competition Act.

We can't say that there are standards of what we charge.

I'm just using that like it could be whatever.

But where it differs is, is there's procedural safeguards when property is seized.

We've also got the Competition Act covers some areas here.

Clearly the Criminal Code covers some areas.

And I think that we would be amiss if we ignored the civil law, tort litigation, which actually historically has been the biggest break on the use of consumer products that are unsafe.