Now that the criminal prohibition against price maintenance has been repealed, does that mean that anyone can engage in it?
In the case of price maintenance, the criminal provision was repealed and replaced with a new provision that makes this a civilly reviewable practice. Under the new civil provision, a person can be ordered to stop engaging in price maintenance if the practice will likely have an adverse effect on competition in a given market. Also, private parties can now bring price maintenance cases before the Competition Tribunal.
