The Competition Act: What You Need to Know

I attended a court session involving the application of Competition Act. The Competition Act provides regulations in trade and commerce in trade practices and merges related competition. The main objective of the Competition Act is to encourage and maintain competition levels in Canada to promote adaptability and efficiency in the economy of Canada. The Act ensures that the small and the medium-sized enterprises are protected and have equal opportunity to participate in the Canada economy (Reasons et al., 2016). Many businesses in Canada are governed by the Competition Act, which is a federal law. The law contains civil provisions as well as the criminal provisions with the objective of preventing anti-competitive marketplace practices. The Act encourages competition to provide the customers with diversity in choices and competitiveness in products quality. In the case, the complainant was a medium-sized enterprise who seeks the courts' assistance in which could protect him from unhealthy competition from a large scale firm which produced similar products as the medium scale enterprise owner. Mr Robinson was defendant representing the ABC firm. The complainant was Mr Smith. Mr Smith used Mr Robinson of ABC firm for subjecting him to unhealthy competition through the exploitation of his market space. The presiding judges Mr Walter and Ms Susan interpreted the Act indicating that the law offered protection of the medium enterprise from stiff competition from huge firms. Mr Robin was given thirty days to release the market space previously owned by Mr Smith. The Competition Act has several regulations, regulations respecting anti-competitive acts of persons operating a domestic service enacted in August 2000. The Competition Act can be applied in the social context, especially in the community and community work. The college of social workers and social service workers is a legal body that brings together various social workers and social service workers. The Social Work and Social Service Workers have over 22600 numbers of social workers and social service workers in Ontario. Its primary function was to offer protection of workers from unfit, incompetent and unqualified practitioners. The college membership provides the title of social workers or social service workers. The college offers protection through setting various requirements for entry into the body, especially workers with special education qualifications (Graham et al., 2016). The body ensures that all its members adhere to high standards of practice and code of ethics. The body maintains a comprehensive register of all the registered social service workers and social workers. In the social context and in the community, there are diverse business enterprises which coexist together. The small businesses and medium enterprises are secure from stiff competition from other large scale firms. Competition Act allows for an appropriate competition which provides consumers of various products in the community with many choices in making purchases in Canada. The Act also ensures that the products available to consumers from the various products are high-quality products. The social workers and social service workers body ensure that their members receive quality service and products. Unqualified and incompetent practitioners subject consumers and workers into unfavourable working conditions and limited choice of products with high prices. In the social environment, there are few practitioners who exhibit rogue competition practices exploiting the workers and the product consumers. The Competition Act intervenes to offer variety to the consumers by discouraging monopolies and encouraging healthy competition practices (Binetti, 2019). The social service and the social service workers play their role in these situations by advocating for the rights of their members, protecting them from exploitation and oppressive practices by employers. Some oppressive practices in the workplace include overload to employees and subjecting employees to long hours of service. These practices discourage service workers and hinder their productivity. 

References 

Reasons, C., Hassan, S., Ma, M., Monchalin, L., Bige, M., Paras, C., & Arora, S. (2016). Race and Criminal Justice in Canada.  International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences ,  11 (2). 

Graham, J. R., Shier, M. L., & Nicholas, D. (2016). Workplace congruence and occupational outcomes among social service workers.  The British Journal of Social Work ,  46 (4), 1096-1114. 

Binetti, M. (2019). Competition Enforcement and Litigation in Canada.