TREB VOW restrictions held to be abuse of dominance under Competition Act s.79 (2016 Tribunal redetermination); order requires TREB to stop restricting members' access/use of historical+sale-price data on VOWs

Claim. What the case OPENED: TREB's VOW policies — which excluded sold/historical data (previous listing and sale prices, etc.) from the VOW feed and restricted its display — were held to be an abuse of dominant position under Competition Act s.79. The Tribunal order requires TREB to stop restricting members' access/use of the data, including display of historical listings and sale prices online through VOWs.

Source. 2016 Comp Trib 7; 2017 FCA 236; canada.ca Competition Bureau, accessed 2026-06-21.

Confidence. Verified.

Caveats. "Abuse of dominance under s.79" is a specific statutory finding; the remedy is the order, not a blanket prohibition on all VOW restrictions.

Implication / use. The substantive holding behind the consumer-portal explosion. Any "sold data is now public" claim traces back here.