NDP Leader Wants Competition Bureau to Investigate Loblaw Partnership With Rogers/Bell

Published on May 23, 2024

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for the competition commissioner to investigate allegations that the Loblaw grocery chain Loblaw and a company owned by telecom companies Rogers and Bell, alleging the two companies are engaging in price fixing. Canadians are getting ripped off when they go to the grocery stores, they ripped off their cell phone fees because we’re paying some of the highest in the world,” Mr. Singh said during a May 22 press conference. “And now we’ve learned that Loblaws is teaming up with Rogers and Bell to rip off Canadians even more with their cell phone prices by limiting choices.”...

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