Judge acquits former Library and Archives manager in alleged bid-rigging scheme

After nine years of investigation and litigation, the bureau couldn’t make its case that Barney Shum had indirectly enabled bid-rigging at Library and Archives Canada. It’s the Competition Bureau’s second major trial loss in three years. Still to come: two more proceedings on the same set of facts.
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When Barney Shum showed up to hear his verdict at the Elgin Street courthouse on June 11, he had been living under a very dark shadow for nearly a decade.
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