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Manitoba Contractors Fined $196,000 for Conspiracy Over Social Housing Contracts

Manitoba Contractors Fined $196,000 for Conspiracy Over Social Housing Contracts
A construction worker shingles the roof of a new home in a housing development in Ottawa in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
Chandra Philip
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Five Manitoba contractors have been fined after they pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges involving government social housing contracts.

They were charged in December 2022 after a Competition Bureau investigation. The bureau says the men manipulated 54 contracts between 2011 and 2016.

Chandra Philip
Chandra Philip
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Chandra Philip is a news reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.