Thanks for the question, Mr. Masse.
The bureau does not have specific price-gouging powers, and that issue has come to light once again during the pandemic as there have been complaints of different types of price gouging related to products that people were looking to buy on an urgent basis in terms of the pandemic.
The power we do have, as you know, sir, from your work in this area, is to investigate and refer for prosecution retail gas price-fixing cases. We have done so. We had a significant gas price-fixing case in the province of Quebec, where three separate rounds of charges were laid in 2008, 2010 and 2012, with over 20 convictions of individuals, multiple companies convicted, millions of dollars in fines. We also had a gas price-fixing case in Ontario.
That's where we're able to take action with regard to retail gas. It's where we find the evidence of agreements between gas stations to fix the price.