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Maple Leaf Foods Sues Canada Bread and Grupo Bimbo for Defamation

  • Maple Leaf Foods has filed a defamation lawsuit against Canada Bread and its parent company Grupo Bimbo over allegations related to a bread price-fixing scheme.
  • Canada-Bread-accused-Maple-Leaf of using it as a "shield" to avoid liability, a claim Maple Leaf denies as unfounded and defamatory.
  • The lawsuit follows two class-action suits and an ongoing Competition Bureau investigation into the alleged price-fixing.