Competition Act — C-34 2
Definitions 2 (1) In this Act, article means real and personal property of every description including (a) money, (b) deeds and instruments relating to or evidencing the title or right to property or an interest, immediate, contingent or otherwise, in a corporation or in any assets of a corporation, (c) deeds and instruments giving a right to recover or receive property, (d) tickets or like evidence of right to be in attendance at a particular place at a particular time or times or of a right to transportation, and (e) energy, however generated; ( article ) business includes the business of (a) manufacturing, producing, transporting, acquiring, supplying, storing and otherwise dealing in articles, and (b) acquiring, supplying and otherwise dealing in services. It also includes the raising of funds for charitable or other non-profit purposes. ( entreprise ) Commission [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 19 (2nd Supp.), s. 20] Commissioner means the Commissioner of Competition appointed under subsection 7(1); ( commissaire ) computer system has the same meaning as in subsection 342.1(2) of the Criminal Code ; ( ordinateur ) data means representations, including signs, signals or symbols, that are capable of being understood by an individual or processed by a computer system or other device; ( données ) Director [Repealed, 1999, c. 2, s. 1] electronic message means a message sent by any means of telecommunication, including a text, sound, voice or image message; ( message électronique ) entity means a corporation or a partnership, sole proprietorship, trust or other unincorporated organization capable of conducting business; ( entité ) information includes data; ( renseignement ) locator means a name or information used to identify a source of data on a computer system, and includes a URL; ( localisateur ) merger [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 19 (2nd Supp.), s. 20] Minister means the Minister of Industry; ( ministre ) monopoly [Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 19 (2nd Supp.), s. 20] product includes an article and a service; ( produit ) record means a medium on which information is registered or marked; ( document ) sender information means the part of an electronic message — including the data relating to source, routing, addressing or signalling — that identifies or purports to identify the sender or the origin of the message; ( renseignements sur l’expéditeur ) service means a service of any description whether industrial, trade, professional or otherwise; ( service ) subject matter information means the part of an electronic message that purports to summarize the contents of the message or to give an indication of them; ( objet ) supply means, (a) in relation to an article, sell, rent, lease or otherwise dispose of an article or an interest therein or a right thereto, or offer so to dispose of an article or interest therein or a right thereto, and (b) in relation to a service, sell, rent or otherwise provide a service or offer so to provide a service; ( fournir ou approvisionner ) trade, industry or profession includes any class, division or branch of a trade, industry or profession; ( commerce, industrie ou profession ) Tribunal means the Competition Tribunal established by subsection 3(1) of the Competition Tribunal Act . ( Tribunal ) Affiliation (2) For the purposes of this Act, (a) one entity is affiliated with another entity if one of them is the subsidiary of the other or both are subsidiaries of the same entity or each of them is controlled by the same entity or individual; (b) if two entities are affiliated with the same entity at the same time, they are deemed to be affiliated with each other; and (c) an individual is affiliated with an entity if the individual controls the entity. Subsidiary entity (3) For the purposes of this Act, an entity is a subsidiary of another entity if it is controlled by that other entity. Control (4) For the purposes of this Act, (a) a corporation is controlled by an entity or an individual other than Her Maje