Mandate
The Reviewable Matters/Unilateral Conduct Committee deals with all aspects of the Competition Act's reviewable matters provisions, including abuse of dominance, price maintenance, refusal to deal, exclusive dealing and tied selling, as well as related policy and enforcement matters.
Selected Publications from the CCLR
- Mark Musselman, “Cultivating Change: How Canada’s Competition Act Can Address the Use of Technological Protection Measures in Agriculture” (2025) 37:2 CCLR 1.
- David Vaillancourt and Alex Sokolov, “Abuse of Dominance and Competitor Losses: The ‘Benefit Derived’ Regime is not Fit for Purpose” (2025) 37:2 CCLR 109.
- Linda J. Visser, Charles M. Wright and Georgia Hamilton, “The New Abuse of Dominance Regime in Canada: An Opportunity for Greater Enforcement and Access to Justice” (2025) 37:2 CCLR 128.
- W. Michael G. Osborne, “Back to the Future: Modernizing Canada’s Monopolization Law” (2023) 36:2 CCLR 1.
- Julie Rosenthal, Adil Abdulla and Arash Rouhi, “Optimal Enforcement of Abuse of Dominance: The Case for a Private Cause of Action” (2023) 36:2 CCLR 34.
- Gordon Milne, “Nipped in the Bud: Applying Abuse of Dominance to Facebook’s Nascent Competitor Acquisitions” (2023) 36:3 CCLR 2.
Upcoming Committee Events
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Past Events
Have Your Say: ACCA Enforcement Guidelines Roundtable (January 19, 2026)
Why Should I Care about Property Controls? (December 9, 2025)
International Hot Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Competition Law, and the Way Forward (March 5, 2025)
Lessons from JAMP/Janssen: Exploring the Competition Tribunal’s Decision to Deny Leave (February 6, 2025)
Excessive Pricing by Dominant Firms – What even IS that? (March 7, 2024)
Let's Talk Private Access! (January 12, 2024)
Mergers and Monopolistic Practices Roundtable with the Competition Bureau (November 15, 2023)
How To Have An Effective Pre and Post S.11 Issuance Dialogue (March 27, 2023)
Registering for Settlement: Generic and Biosimilars (February 28, 2023)
A Primer on the Amendments to Canada's Abuse of Dominance Provisions (December 2, 2022)
Mergers/Monopolistic Practices Roundtable (May 26, 2022)
Making an Effective Abuse of Dominance Complaint (March 10, 2022)
Abuse of Dominance 101: Legislation vs Jurisprudence (January 11, 2022) Recording available upon request
Epic v. Apple (December 14, 2021)
Mergers and Reviewable Matters/Unilateral Conduct Committees Joint Roundtable (May 19, 2021)
Defanging the "FANGs" - Why the Focus on Big Tech? (January 29, 2021) Recording available upon request
Member Input
Ideas for program topics and other feedback to assist the committee in meeting members’ needs can be forwarded to the Committee Chair, Justine Johnston.