Annual Report 1996/97 - Annual Report of the Director of Investigation and Research for the year ending March 31, 1997

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Contents

• How to contact the Competition Bureau
  
  
• Letter
  
  
• Introduction
  
  
• Amending the Competition Act
  
  
• Industries in transition — a continuing priority
  
  
• Enforcement of the criminal provisions of the Act continues to be a key Bureau activity
  
  
• Deceptive marketing scams a focus of the Marketing Practices Branch
  
  
• Canadian merger activity at an all-time high
  
  
• Bureau economists play an important role in economic and regulatory issues
  
  
• Growing Bureau involvement on the international front
  
  
• Compliance and education activities growing in importance
  
  
• Looking ahead
  
  
• Statistical Data ( PDF: 1080 KB)