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(2) Where subsection (1) otherwise applies, but one of the terms is that the thing received or the proceeds or part of the proceeds of it shall be an item in a debtor and creditor account between the person who receives the thing and the person to whom he is to account for or to pay it, and that the latter shall rely only on the liability of the other as his debtor in respect thereof, a proper entry in that account of the thing received or the proceeds or part of the proceeds of it, as the case may be, is a sufficient accounting therefor, and no fraudulent conversion of the thing or the proceeds or part of the proceeds of it thereby acco ...[+++]unted for shall be deemed to have taken place.

Mr. Randy White: I'd like to know if you have any outstanding current liabilities from the election, like accounts payable for instance, or payment in particular of facilities that were used by returning officers.

Namely, those would be requiring a supplier to pay a fee to a retailer as a condition for selling a product; squeezing by vertically integrated retailers the margin available to a non-integrated person competing with the retailer—you'll notice that is a very similar change to what we are trying to accomplish in Bill C-235—and unilaterally withholding amounts owing to a supplier for some purported reason without prior agreement of the supplier.

Many working in the retail sector have reported instances of large multiples demanding money from suppliers just to stock their products.