Efforts to Add Maple Leaf Foods to Bread-Price Fixing Class Action Denied

A worker restocks shelves in the bakery and bread aisle at an Atlantic Superstore grocery in Halifax, Jan. 28, 2022. The Canadian Press/Kelly Clark

An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed an attempt to add Maple Leaf Foods to a class-action lawsuit related to the bread-price fixing scandal.

When the class-action lawsuit was originally certified in an Ontario court in 2021 against several grocery retailers and other food companies, Maple Leaf was not included.