Following several years of lively public discussion, two high-profile consultations and the introduction of several “interim amendments” to the Competition Act in 2022,1 the federal government has now tabled two new bills Bill C-56 and Bill C-59 which, together, would introduce the most significant reforms to Canadian competition policy in several decades.
Canada s new criminal prohibition on wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements will come into force on June 23, 2023. These new provisions under subsection 451.1 of the Competition Act the Act were enacted last year but did not immediately come into force.