RONA, Revenue Canada lock horns

OTTAWA — RONA has spent the last several months in a legal conflict with the Canada Revenue Agency over the confidentiality of client records from its contractor business, Le Journal de Montréal reports. The feds, who are investigating the underground economy, want a complete list of participants in the company’s contractor program. They point to the 1,277 contractors they have turned up in their investigation who have missed at least one tax return between 2008 and 2012. RONA protests that the investigation amounts to bullying of the industry, but more than 20 of its competitors, including Canac, Patrick Morin, and BMR, have already handed over customer data.