The most significant amendments to Canada’s competition laws since 1986 were enacted in March 2009. Slipped into the country’s virtually unchallenged budget bill, the amendments will change almost every aspect of competition law once they enter into force in spring 2010. From cartel enforcement to mergers and single-firm conduct, the amendments will add razor-sharp teeth to the law and give Canada’s Competition Bureau some of the world’s most far-reaching antitrust enforcement powers