The Canada Revenue Agency set its sights last summer on the industrial bakery at the centre of an undercover Star investigation into temp work, according to internal Workplace Safety and Insurance Board emails obtained by the Star.
Fiera Foods, along with at least 13 temporary employment agencies that supplied the factory’s production lines, were identified in emails obtained under freedom of information laws as companies the workers’ compensation board “may wish to look at” because they were facing scrutiny from the CRA.
“They may be of interest to us given CRA is investigating them … just a thought,” reads an email from a WSIB project manager to the board’s assistant director of stakeholder compliance sent last June, after the tax agency requested information from the…
