Canada: Announced Canadian Competition Bureau investigation into Google over advertising dominance

On 12 October 2021, the Canadian Competition Bureau opened an investigation into Google for alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the area of online advertising. In order to investigate if this practice is harming competition in Canada, the Bureau filed documents with the Federal Court of Canada in an effort to receive a court order to advance its civil investigation in the matter of "Commissioner of Competition v. Google Canada Corporation" (T-1551-21). The investigation focuses on the way ads are sold on Google’s platform YouTube, and how the dominance of Google in the market might reduce competition in the online advertising market.