Serge Daunais, a former executive for Pavages Maska Inc., pleaded guilty before the Superior Court of Québec in a case of bid-rigging for a paving contract awarded by the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) in and around the Granby region. He was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.
Serge Daunais admitted to conspiring with his competitors Construction DJL Inc. and Sintra Inc. to submit rigged bids in response to a call for tenders from the MTQ in 2008. This scheme allowed the three businesses to determine in advance which one would obtain the public contract and to establish the price of the project funded by taxpayers.
It was an investigation by the Competition Bureau that revealed the existence of this illegal agreement and led to criminal charges against Serge Daunais and a second individual, Marcel Roireau, in September 2023. Marcel Roireau was sentenced to twelve months of house arrest after pleading guilty last September under the bid-rigging provisions of the Competition Act.
