The Competition Bureau pushed back on Google in its ongoing lawsuit over the tech giant’s advertising practices in Canada, accusing the company of seeking to mask its alleged anticompetitive conduct.
In court documents filed Friday, Competition Commissioner Matthew Boswell repeated the bureau’s previous allegations and said Google’s recent legal response describes an ad market that “ignores commercial reality.”
The filing comes after Google’s response in February, in which the company denied abusing its dominant position in the web advertising market and took issue with the bureau’s arguments.
In its written response, Google disputed the bureau’s definition of the ad market, and said the financial penalty being sought is unconstitutional….