TORONTO — Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has launched a defamation lawsuit against Canada Bread Co. Ltd. and its parent company Grupo Bimbo.
The lawsuit comes after Canada Bread accused Maple Leaf of using it as a"shield" to avoid liability in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme, which is subject of two class-action lawsuits and an ongoing Competition Bureau investigation.
However, it has previously denied participating in a"lengthy, wide-ranging conspiracy" to fix the price of bread, and has said that any anticompetitive behaviour it participated in was at the direction and to the benefit of Maple Leaf. Loblaw and Weston Foods, both subsidiaries of George Weston at the time, received immunity from prosecution after admitting to participating in an"industry-wide price-fixing arrangement."
The plaintiffs for the Ontario-based class action lawsuit recently applied to have Maple Leaf added to the class action as a defendant because of its past ownership of Canada Bread, but were not successful.
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