Certification of antitrust class actions in Canada: is the bar lowering?

Two Canadian courts have recently certified class actions alleging global price-fixing conspiracies, write Linda Plumpton, Omar Wakil and Sandeep Joshi of Torys LLP. The decisions are significant because they depart in key respects from the leading decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in this area. Read together, they suggest that the bar for certification of antitrust class actions in Canada may be lowering

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