Exam 3: Government Regulation of Business

The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA)applies to manufacturing,importing,selling,and distributing,and applies to a broad range of products.The CCPSA also provides for all of the following EXCEPT

The Competition Act creates a number of criminal offences punishable by fines and imprisonment.The Act prohibits competitors from entering into agreements that hurt competition in their industry which are generally described as conspiracies.Criminal conspiracies include all of the following except

A voluntary code of conduct created to supplement legislation is as binding as the legislation itself.

A law that prohibits any form of association between two or more businesses is probably

A law that applies restrictions on advertising,but does not prohibit it,is probably

Regarding government regulations,a distinction is sometimes made between direct regulation and social regulation.Which of the following would be a social regulation?

In relation to price fixing,what is parallel pricing?

Consumer protection statutes create regulatory offences that require mens rea and usually allow the due diligence defence.

Bill and Ted are engaged in the business of selling bottled water.Bill's company operates in northern Ontario.Ted's company operates in southwestern Ontario.They are the main suppliers of bottled water in their respective areas.Ted decides to open a new office in northern Ontario in order to compete directly with Bill.Prior to the office opening,Bill and Ted bump into each other at a convention.They have a short discussion about business over dinner and agree orally that neither one of them will ever try and move into the other's existing territory.They shake hands and leave.The nature of the agreement entered into by Bill and Ted

Administrative bodies created by statute must provide a basic level of procedural fairness to those persons likely to be affected by any decision.At a minimum,procedural fairness includes all of the following except

Edward is an arbitrator appointed under the Arbitration Act.Procedure under the Act is set out in another statute,which makes it mandatory that arbitration briefs be filed by each party to the arbitration.In an arbitration hearing held yesterday,only one party was permitted to file an arbitration brief,but Edward decided that the other brief was unnecessary and rendered his decision.On a judicial review hearing of Edward's decision,