Automakers Hit with $2b Suit

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As the loonie hovers around parity with the U.S. dollar, many Canadian consumers have questioned why there's such a big price difference between the two countries on many ordinary goods imported from the U.S. -- everything ranging from guitars and DVD players to flat-screen TVs, cars, trucks and baby products.

"Cars on an absolute basis are just cheaper in the United States and one has to wonder why. When you go and try to exercise that reasonably available efficient alternative, you're stopped," [Henry Juroviesky] said.

"It would be expected under natural laws of competition that if not for the defendants' conspiracy to artificially maintain their domestic prices in the U.S. at historical levels, the prices of U.S. domestic goods would have fallen to approximate the price levels of the readily available Canadian alternative," the suit said.

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Automakers Hit with $2b Suit

Canadian car prices artificially high: consumers

By David Friend

TORONTO -- Several automakers have been slapped with a $2-billion class action lawsuit that claims the industry ...

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