Champagne says he's working phones to court new players for Canadian grocery market
Disappointed that Canadian grocers have not been more transparent about their plans to stabilize grocery prices, Industry Minister François−Philippe Champagne is once again insisting that he is reaching out to international grocers in the hopes they will open up shop in Canada. The minister also has sent a letter to the commissioner of the Competition Bureau asking to discuss a follow−up study on the grocery sector, now that the bureau has new powers to subpoena companies for information. The Competition Bureau published the findings of its previous study in June, saying that grocers’ co−operation varied and was not fulsome.
