Loblaws-owned superstore fined 10K for promoting imported food as Canadian (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Nationalize Loblaws!

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

The Superstore is located on Gerry Fitzgerald Drive.

Maximum fine is $15k.

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 15 points 19 hours ago

Yes I'm sure $10k will send a message.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 20 hours ago

Is there nothing these fuckers won't do to get our hard earned cash? Let's refresh that boycott.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If these fines don't START with forfeiting the ill gotten revenue then they are just a fee.

[-] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

This would be a great entry for the Bob Loblaw Law Blog.

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

We don't need legal double talk

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

So they’re fined the amount I pay them annually? What about fines for all the other Canadians they’ve defrauded?

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

If you are able, you can add "fines" yourself by not shopping there.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I add fines at the self checkout

[-] kevinrns@mstdn.social 16 points 1 day ago

@Quilotoa

Pennies. These people are billionaires, they should pay fines.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Yup, it should 100% of revenue of the false product. Redistributed to canadian food producers. And the execs who green lit this should be thrown in prison

[-] kevinrns@mstdn.social 11 points 1 day ago

@T00l_shed

Accountability, responsibility.

Sweden and others have a sliding fine with no top end, based on the income of those being fined.

A baker speeding 90 in a 70, gets a 154.00, but the billionaire doing 90 in a 70 gets fined $14,675.00.

So as to make the pain of the fine equal for all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

[-] fourish@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Th billionaire fine needs at least 2-4 more zeros to make the point.

[-] kevinrns@mstdn.social 0 points 14 hours ago

@fourish

You can look up the fines in Scandinavian countries. Its quite sane and satisfactory.

They aren't fined too much, just enough so it makes sense to not speed anymore.

[-] fourish@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I was going off the numbers in this post. $15,000 is a rounding error to a billionaire. Doubt they’d even care. Just pay it and speed.

If the number is accurate I stand by my comment. If the number is inaccurate that’s in the hands of the person I replied to.

[-] No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

Swedish day fines have, contrary to its Finnish counterparts, a maximum limit so as not to render too excessive of a fine should the offender have a very large income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine