The Canadian Competition Bureau’s core competition law compliance recommendation, including in the advertising and marketing law area, is that companies, trade/professional associations and others that face potential Competition Act risk adopt credible and effective competition law compliance programs. See: Competition Bureau, Compliance Hub.
Credible and effective competition law compliance programs can, in some cases, mitigate the penalties in a Competition Bureau investigation, are routinely required as a condition in negotiated settlements with the Competition Bureau (i.e., as terms in negotiated consent agreements with the Competition Bureau) and are a key way to avoid potential competition or advertising law issues from arising at all.
OUR COMPETITION AND ADVERTISING LAW
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM SERVICES
We offer competition law, advertising law and CASL (anti-spam law) compliance and educational services for public and private companies, advertising agencies, communications firms, trade and professional associations, not-for-profit bodies and other organizations that face potential competition or advertising law risk.
Our compliance services include compliance audits, compliance programs and policies, compliance guidelines and checklists, seminars and talks for company, agency and association personnel, vetting corporate and trade association activities, legal advice and opinions, board of director and new executive orientation seminars and seeking Competition Bureau written opinions.
Our work has included providing compliance services to a wide range of clients in relation to Canadian advertising law, CASL (anti-spam law), competition law, contest law, consumer protection laws and sector-specific legislation and regulation (e.g., the regulation of professionals, trade and professional association codes of conduct and rules, etc.).
REPRESENTATIVE COMPETITION LAW AND ADVERTISING LAW
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM AND COMPLIANCE WORK
Some representative examples of our Canadian competition and advertising law compliance work include:
Preparing competition and advertising law compliance programs and policies in many industries, compliance talks and seminars for associations and companies, competition law lunch-and-learns for law firms, agencies and other organizations, drafting conduct of meeting, search and seizure and information exchange guidelines for companies and associations, guidelines for joint ventures, strategic alliances and other competitor collaborations, guidelines to conduct surveys and benchmarking involving competitors, a national competition law compliance course for organized real estate (Competition Law and REALTORS: What You Say and Do Matters), subject matter expert for a national online competition law compliance course for Canadian REALTORS, co-author of The Competition Law Guide for Trade Associations in Canada (Carswell), Lawyer Editor for Practical Law Canada, Competition, subject matter expert and author for the advertising law section of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College’s course Ethics in Clinical Practice and Advertising, advertising/marketing law do’s and don’ts and compliance guidelines and compliance advice, precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian federal anti-spam law (CASL).
For more information see: Compliance, Trade and Professional Association Compliance, Contest Forms and Precedents and CASL Forms and Precedents. For more information about Canadian competition law, visit our competition law blog: Canadian Competition Law.
