The bureau’s request for what Amazon says would be billions of records about certain Canadian transactions could be excessive and the competition watchdog didn’t demonstrate it was justified, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled, upholding a lower-court decision. (The Logic)

Talking point: In a probe launched under ex-commissioner Matthew Boswell, the Competition Bureau has been investigating the possibility that Amazon allows reviews by people who haven’t bought the products, which could be a form of deceptive marketing. The Competition Act gives the bureau the right to corporate data relevant to its investigations, but the court found that the bureau itself wasn’t sure about the scale of what it wanted from Amazon, making it impossible to decide whether the demand was reasonable.