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

submitted 1 week ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] kevinrns@mstdn.social 20 points 1 week ago

@Quilotoa

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

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week 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 13 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] kevinrns@mstdn.social 0 points 1 week 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 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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

[-] kevinrns@mstdn.social 2 points 1 week ago

@No_Maines_Land

Its in several Skandi countries. Let's expand.

[-] No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, I'm on board with the concept. Just trying to correct a bit of accidental misinformation on Sweden having no upper limit to day-fines.

I'm pretty sure our military justice system uses a a form of day-fines. So we even have an existing precedent at home!

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

And then some fines on top.

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

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

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

[-] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

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

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

We don't need legal double talk

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Nationalize food wholesale

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

To be clear, this was a single location, not the entire company.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

To be clear, the entire company also fucking sucks. Fuck Galen Weston.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I didn't claim otherwise.

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

And the cost of that fine will be passed on to us consumers!

[-] HertzDentalBar 4 points 1 week ago

Nationalize Loblaws!

[-] maplesaga@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Federally override regressive zoning laws that give them their monopoly on land so we can have actual competition. Cap density limits and taxes to a healthy commercial real estate value.