Canada’s competition bureau ordered to pay nearly $10 mln to Rogers, Shaw

Canada’s merger court asked the competition bureau to pay about C$13 million ($9.58 million) to Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications for the lengthy court battle after its failed attempt to block the telecom firms’ C$20-billion merger.

The Competition Tribunal, Canada’s merger court, in a ruling dated Aug. 28 said the Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell’s approach to block the deal was “unreasonable”.

The companies maintained that Boswell “adopted an unnecessarily contentious approach throughout the litigation, which significantly increased the costs that they were required to incur,” the tribunal said.