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1st Session, 37th Parliament,
49-50 Elizabeth II, 2001
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House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-276
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An Act to amend the Competition Act (abuse
of dominant position)
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| R.S., c. C-34
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Her Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate and House of Commons
of Canada, enacts as follows:
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| R.S., c. 19
(2nd Supp.),
s. 45; 2000,
c. 15, s. 13
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1. Subsection 78(1) of the Competition Act
is amended by adding the following after
paragraph (i):
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(i.1) requiring a supplier to pay a fee to a
retailer as a condition for selling a product,
if the fee is unrelated to, or in excess of, the
actual costs incurred by the retailer with
respect to the product for the purpose of
impeding or preventing a supplier's entry
into or expansion in a market;
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(i.2) squeezing, by a vertically integrated
retailer, of the margin available to an
unintegrated person competing with the
retailer, for the purpose of impeding or
preventing the person's entry into, or
expansion in a market;
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(i.3) unilaterally withholding amounts
owing to a supplier for some purported
reason without the prior agreement of the
supplier for the purpose of disciplining the
supplier;
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