A Canadian firm with a highly desirable line of pharmaceutical products offers "all or nothing" to a distributor in Africa. The distributor covets one particular vaccine only but reluctantly takes the line of products in order to get the vaccine. The Canadian company has broken the law.

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This practice, known as "bundling" or "tying," is not inherently illegal and is a common strategy in various industries to increase sales of less popular products. The legality would depend on specific competition laws in the jurisdictions involved and whether the company has a dominant market position that could lead to anti-competitive practices.

A Canadian Firm with a Highly Desirable Line of Pharmaceutical