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Outside View

By David Webb 

Buyer Beware

Is Canada’s largest retailer of outdoor gear taking aim at your heritage?


Big-box retailer Mountain Equipment Co-Op is often shrouded in controversy. The company frequently faces opposition to its not-for-profit designation — a designation that has allowed it to achieve nearly a quarter-billion dollars in annual sales while contributing a mere one-half-of-one per cent of that to the tax man. However, there is another issue surrounding MEC that is of much greater relevance to the sportsman.