Maple Leaf Foods, other grocers remain under investigation by Competition Bureau after Canada Bread agreed to pay $50-million fine in price-fixing investigation
bought Canada Bread in 2014 and said last week that it had no knowledge of any price-fixing arrangements at the time of the acquisition.
The court document includes a screenshot of an e-mail from March, 2007, in which Mr. McCain wrote hat he “had a wide ranging conversation” with Paul del Duca, who was employed by grocer Metro Inc.“One of the topics that we discussed vigorously was the strategy of managing category profit up in the retail environment,” Mr. McCain wrote in the e-mail, which was sent from the account of his executive assistant at the time, Sue Perkins.
“Metro denies that it or any of its employees participated in a price-fixing conspiracy or violated the Competition Act and will not comment further,” spokesperson Stephanie Bonk wrote in an e-mailed statement. Maple Leaf’s position stands in stark contrast to the Competition Bureau’s 2019 court filing, which outlines communications between industry players aimed at co-operatively setting the price of bread.
However, the document also says the Competition Bureau believes the activity continued until 2017, when its investigation became public., Walmart Canada Corp. and Giant Tiger Stores Ltd. Representatives for all those companies have denied any violation of competition law.
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