Page "Competition law" Paragraph 20

While the development of competition law stalled in Europe during the late 19th century, in 1889 Canada enacted what is considered the first competition statute of modern times.

The Act for the Prevention and Suppression of Combinations formed in restraint of Trade was passed one year before the United States enacted the most famous legal statute on competition law, the Sherman Act of 1890.

It was named after Senator John Sherman who argued that the Act " does not announce a new principle of law, but applies old and well recognised principles of common law ".