One of just five companies on Ottawa's list of 'ineligible and suspended suppliers'
Canada Bread — one of the country’s biggest commercial bakeries, behind brands such as Dempster’s and Villaggio, among others —to four counts of price fixing and received a $50-million fine — the first major development in the case since news of the scheme first emerged in 2017. On Aug. 22, two months after the guilty plea, the federal government banned Canada Bread from bidding on government contracts for 10 years.
In a statement, Canada Bread said it respects the government’s policy on ineligible suppliers and is “working within such policy.” The company has been controlled by Mexican baking giant Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V. since 2014. In court documents earlier this summer, the company said it only learned about the price-fixing activity in 2017 when the Competition Bureau, a federal law enforcement agency, executed a search warrant against Canada Bread.
“Grupo Bimbo is considering all legal options against those responsible for the conduct at issue,” the company said in a statement in June. The judge said she took the bureau’s approach to leniency into consideration, since “much of the conduct would go undetected” without participants coming forward to confess in exchange for an easier sentence. Still, the $50-million fine was the highest on record, the bureau said.“Effectively, this was a fraud on the public,” Forestall said in her reasons for sentencing. “These offences affected millions of consumers.
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