A team of CRA consultants helped successfully defend the Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) against a claim by the Canadian Competition Bureau that VAA had abused a dominant position. The Competition Bureau alleged that there was a substantial lessening of competition arising from VAA’s limitations on entry in the provision of in-flight catering services at the airport. However, the Competition Tribunal determined that the entry restrictions had a valid business justification and did not result in a substantial lessening of competition. CRA economist David Reitman testified on behalf of VAA at the hearing.
Does your merger trigger Canada’s “rebuttable structural presumption”?
This article, authored by CRA’s Ian Cass, provides a brief reference guide along with a visual tool to help assess whether a merger meets the prescribed market...