In order for the bureau to commence a formal investigation under the Competition Act, we need evidence that a specific section or provision of the act may have been violated.
Where the propane industry is concerned, anti-competitive conduct would likely arise from probably three different types of conduct under the act. One could be having two or more people agreeing to fix prices or allocate markets. In that situation we would need evidence that two or more people have engaged in an explicit agreement to engage in this conduct.
A second one could be a firm abusing a dominant position in a marketplace. For this we would need to have a three-part test: first, a firm, or a group of firms, has a dominant position in a market; second, they have engaged in a practice of anti-competitive acts; and finally, that practice would have a negative effect on competition in the marketplace.
A third one could also be having an agreement between competitors that would have an impact on competition as well.
Those are the kinds of evidence that we would need to commence a formal investigation under the act.