Canadian Waste Services Holdings Inc. v. Canada (Commissioner of Competition), 2003 FCA 190

Date: 20030416

Docket: A-644-01

A-45-02

Neutral citation: 2003 FCA 190

CORAM:        STONE J.A.

NOËL J.A.

SEXTON J.A.

BETWEEN:

                       CANADIAN WASTE SERVICES HOLDINGS, INC., CANADIAN

                        WASTE SERVICES INC., AND WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

                                                                                                                                                     Appellants

                                                                                 and

                                               COMMISSIONER OF COMPETITION

                                                                                                                                                   Respondent

                                               Heard at Ottawa, Ontario, on April 16, 2003.

                          Order delivered from the bench at Ottawa, Ontario, on April 16, 2003.

REASONS FOR ORDER BY:                                                                                                STONE J.A.

Date: 20030416

Docket: A-644-01

A-45-02

Neutral citation: 2003 FCA 190

CORAM:        STONE J.A.

NOËL J.A.

SEXTON J.A.

BETWEEN:

                       CANADIAN WASTE SERVICES HOLDINGS, INC., CANADIAN

                        WASTE SERVICES INC., AND WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

                                                                                                                                                     Appellants

                                                                                 and

                                               COMMISSIONER OF COMPETITION

                                                                                                                                                   Respondent

                                            REASONS FOR ORDER OF THE COURT

                         (Delivered from the Bench at Ottawa, Ontario, on April 16, 2003)

STONE J.A.

[1]                 The material before the Court in the within motion shows that the appellants intend to seek leave to the Supreme Court of Canada from this Court's judgment dated March 12, 2003 dismissing appeals from two orders of the Competition Tribunal dated March 28, 2001 and October 3, 2001, respectively. The object of the appeals was to overturn those orders, the first of which determined that the appellants' ownership of a waste land fill facility in southwestern Ontario resulted in a substantial lessening or prevention of competition and the second that the facility be divested in accordance with its terms.

[2]                 The appellants now seek a stay of the judgment and of the order of October 3, 2003 pursuant to subsection 65.1(2) of the Supreme Court Act.

[3]                 We have not been persuaded that the appellants have satisfied the three-part test for the granting of a stay laid down by the Supreme Court of Canada in RJR-MacDonald v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311. Accordingly, the motion will be dismissed with costs.

                                                                                                                                             "A.J. STONE"             

                                                                                                                                                                  J.A.

                                                    FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

                              NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD

DOCKET:                                             A-644-01 and A-45-02

STYLE OF CAUSE:                           Canadian Waste Services Holdings Inc., Canadian Waste

Services and Waste Management Inc.

v.

Commissioner of Competition

and

Corporation of the Municipality of Chatham-Kent

PLACE OF HEARING:                     Ottawa, Ontario

DATE OF HEARING:                       April 16, 2003

REASONS FOR

ORDER OF THE COURT:              Stone, Noël, Sexton JJ.A.

RENDERED FROM

THE BENCH BY:                               Stone, J.A.

APPEARANCES BY :                      

Mr. David W. Scott, Q.C.                                                             for Appellants

Mr. Nicholas P. McHaffie                                                              for the Appellants

Mr. Donald B. Houston                                                                for the Respondent

Ms. Josée S. Gravelle

SOLICITORS ON THE RECORD:                                      

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP                         for the Appellants

Ottawa, Ontario

Stikeman Elliott                                   for the Appellants

Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario

Kelly Affleck Greene                               for the Respondent

Toronto, Ontario

Mr. Morris Rosenberg                               for the Respondent

Deputy Attorney General of Canada

Ottawa, Ontario

Wilms & Shier                                      for the Intervener

Toronto, Ontario