Those familiar with the Canadian competition scene will understand why the following is nothing if not remarkable: This year, most Canadian competition lawyers GCR spoke with heaped praise on the country's Competition Bureau, saying that the enforcer has taken significant steps over the past year to improve almost every aspect of its enforcement practice. After years of being almost uniformly maligned by Bay Street's competition lawyers - some of the harshest critics in the business, by their own admittance - it appears that the bureau and its headstrong commissioner, Melanie Aitken, have made all the right moves in adapting to and implementing the country's tough new competition laws.