Our mandate is to ensure that Canadian businesses and consumers prosper in a competitive and innovative marketplace. Our focus is very much on competition for Canadians and the health of the economy. Generally speaking, we have provisions that deal with criminal matters such as price fixing. We evaluate proposed mergers to see if they might limit competition for Canadians for products and services. We have a branch that looks specifically at abuse of dominant position, when large companies that dominate a marketplace might be engaging in acts to limit competition.
In our branch, the fair business practices branch, the core of our work is to investigate cases of false and misleading representation and deceptive marketing practices that cause consumers to have unclear information when they go to make purchasing decisions.