Kalibrate agrees to limit retailer-level gas-station data sharing
A legally binding Competition Bureau agreement requires Kalibrate to stop distributing retailer-specific fuel-market information and delay aggregated data.
Fuel-market analytics company Kalibrate has agreed to stop sharing retailer-specific information that could reveal individual gas stations’ sales or pricing practices.
The Competition Bureau says its review of the Kalibrate Market Intelligence product found that competing retailers could access confidential, commercially sensitive information, including the volume of fuel sold by individual businesses. The Bureau concluded that the data-sharing practices weakened competition and amounted to an abuse of Kalibrate’s dominant position in Canadian retail-fuel sales data.
Under the consent agreement, Kalibrate must distribute only aggregated information that does not identify individual retailers and must impose a time delay before market data is shared. The agreement is registered with the Competition Tribunal, making it legally binding with the effect of a court order.
The Bureau says this is the first consent agreement reached using the restructured abuse-of-dominance provisions added to the Competition Act in 2023. The announcement does not claim that pump prices will immediately change.
Source: Competition Bureau Canada, Kalibrate consent-agreement announcement, September 24, 2026.
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