“Here comes a new contestant!” Canada’s regulator is joining Microsoft’s legal battle, but on the opposite team. And it’s that while the FTC scrutinizes the $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, Canadians refute Microsoft’s comments who express that “except one, all the regulators in the world agree with the purchase” indicating that their country continues to “monitor the transaction”.
According The edgehe Competition Bureau The North Country has written to Judge Corley, who is presiding over the FTC hearings in the United States, to correct certain “factual inaccuracies” in Microsoft’s submissions.
Canada joins the legal feat
The Canadian agency is in particular in disagreement with this passive approval to which Microsoft refers and in its communication with the judge it indicates that it contacted Activision Canada and Microsoft itself to indicate that, for them, “the purchase could lead to a reduction market competition from consoles and subscription services related to video games.
Rebecca Dougherty, the Microsoft spokeswoman, for her part specified that the formal deadline within which the Canadian regulator could have prevented the purchase, it’s already arrived.
What is certain is that there are not a few markets that have given the green light to buy, even giants like China and Europe have given the green light to the agreement, it seems incredible that in a territory that should be almost local to the brand, there are so many “buts”. As the saying goes, it seems that no one is a prophet in his country.
