Canada's Competition Bureau has launched an investigation into online selling powerhouse Amazon.ca to examine whether the website's U.S. owners are "impacting competition to the detriment of consumers and companies that do business in Canada." Any efforts or strategies by Amazon that may influence consumers to purchase products it offers for sale over those offered by competing sellers. The bureau is asking any person or business that has conducted sales via Amazon.ca to contact them if they have any insights into the issues it is investigating. That figure does not include sales on Amazon.ca since the data agency does not consider Amazon to be a retailer because it does not have physical locations in Canada. From Statistics Canada's perspective, sales on Amazon.ca are recorded as wholesale sales.

Source: CBC News August 14, 2020 14:31 UTC