Canadian Competition Policy in the Digital Age: Is Today’s Toolkit up to the Task?

May 16, 2019

At their April meeting, Council members discussed whether Canada’s competition policy toolkit is sufficient to address new forms of market power that may arise in the digital economy. Governments worldwide are wrestling with public concerns about the perceived power and influence of “Big Tech” companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon that provide digital platforms for searching, shopping and social media and collect extensive datasets about users’ online activities. In the face of populist appeals for a revamp of antitrust rules and pressure to directly regulate digital platforms, the consensus of the Council was that Canada’s competition law continues to provide a robust framework for confronting new forms of anticompetitive behaviour that may arise in the digital economy. However, Council members cautioned that competition law has limits.

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