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Canada Bread Fined for Price Fixing

  • #Shopping
  • #Canada
  • #Antitrust actions & laws
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JUN 2023
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story last updated JUN 2023

The Spin

Left narrative

The Canada Bread price-fixing scandal is part of a much larger bug in the Canadian marketplace. Investigations into grocery cartels have continually been launched since the early 2000s, though the problem is far from fixed and market competition is still not free and fair. Government investigations and class-action lawsuits shouldn't only bring punishment to companies but also financial compensation to regular Canadians struggling with high prices.

CBC

Right narrative

While it's important to prevent price-fixing, governments must not use economic struggles and bad faith companies as an excuse to begin price-fixing themselves. As has been the case in Venezuela since the Hugo Chavez regime, artificially lowering prices leads to more demand without an equal supply. Therefore, as people in Caracas wait three hours in line for rice, they're wasting time and money, which actually makes life more expensive.

Forbes

Political split

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