The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected the Competition Bureau’s appeal on the Rogers-Shaw deal.
The Court of Appeal found the Competition Bureau’s arguments did not meet the high threshold needed to overturn the decision by the Competition Tribunal approving Rogers Communications Inc.’s takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.
The Competition Bureau’s arguments had focused on what they said were four key legal errors that focused especially on how the proposed sale of Shaw’s Freedom Mobile to Videotron factored into the tribunal’s decision.
The Court of Appeal said the tribunal made it clear that the deal would not substantially lessen competition and that the decision wouldn’t change even with the approach argued by the bureau….