First, to go back to your previous subject, you asked about ongoing investigations in terms of groceries. We are continuing our investigation into bread price-fixing where Canada Bread pleaded guilty in the summer of 2023, leading to a $50-million fine for price-fixing with Weston bread. That investigation continues, and there are multiple companies under investigation. That's public, which is why I can talk about it.
Of course, our investigation in that area led to a class action that was just settled by Loblaws, in which they agreed to pay $500 million to Canadian consumers. That's an aspect of the grocery market that we continue to investigate. We've obtained some results in terms of a guilty plea by Canada Bread and Loblaws admitting their involvement through our immunity program.
In terms of other sectors, perhaps I'll quickly say that we have two roles in the bureau: to protect competition, which is mainly our enforcement role, and to promote competition in Canada, and the act contemplates us making submissions to federal boards and tribunals. Of course, now the act specifically contemplates us engaging in market studies to determine what the competition issues are in a given sector of the economy. You've already heard that we've done that in passenger air travel, and we had done that in the grocery industry before we had powers.
On September 4, we launched publicly a consultation for our new market study, which is looking into the financing sector for small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada with a focus—at least right now in our consultation paper—on term loans. We engaged in that study because we saw some—