Dr. Sylvain Charlebois at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On June 12th, 2024. See this statement in context.

June 12th, 2024 / 5:45 p.m.

Senior Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab and Professor, Dalhousie University, Agri-Food Analytics Lab

I would say yes. I believe that the food distribution landscape in Canada would be very different today if that had happened, I would say, before 1998, when Provigo was acquired by Loblaws; and in 2005, I believe, when A&P was acquired by Metro; and in 2013 when Sobeys acquired Safeway.

Those three specific acquisitions wouldn't have happened if Bill C-56 had been approved or ratified before 1998.

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