Canadian Competition Policy: Interim Report of the Economic Council of Canada
![handle is hein.journals/antibull15 and id is 527 raw text is: CANADIAN COMPETITION POLICY: INTERIM REPORT
OF THE ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF CANADA
by
BRucE C. McDONALD°
By special Reference in July, 1966, the federal govern-
ment requested the Economic Council of Canada as follows:
In the light of the Government's long-term economic
objectives, to study and advise regarding:
(a) the interests of the consumer particularly as they
relate to the functions of the Department of the
Registrar General [now the Department of Con-
sumer and Corporate Affairs];
(b) combines, mergers, monopolies and restraint of
trade;
(c) patents, trade marks, copyrights and registered in-
dustrial designs.
The study is envisaged as the basis for a legislative program.
An Interim Report on Consumer Affairs came down in 1967,
the Interim Report on Competition Policy in August, 1969,'
and the report on intellectual property is expected in 1970.
A fourth and final report has been promised, to draw together
in a broad economic context the recommendations and con-
clusions of the entire study on the reference and to make such
further recommendations as seem necessary or desirable.
Canadian anti-combines law has long had an air of un-
reality about it. From the time of the first legislation on
the subject in 1889 it has been virtually exclusively criminal
* Professor of Law, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.
Extensive excerpts from the Interim Report on Competition
Policy have been published in preceding issues of the Antitrust
Bulletin.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/antibull15&div=33&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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