A widely known grocery store in Montreal’s Cartierville neighbourhood has collected $8,100 in fines from Quebec’s Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ) over the previous yr, following three well being inspection violations at its Montreal location — all for a similar sort of infraction.
Marché C&T, situated at 12200 Boulevard Laurentien, was cited thrice for failing to take care of clear premises, tools, supplies, and utensils used within the preparation, storage, and repair of meals. The violations had been recorded throughout three separate inspections in 2025, with fines published between December 2025 and April 2026.
The latest fantastic, revealed April 15, 2026, was the most important of the three at $3,500, stemming from a September 2025 inspection. Earlier than that, a $3,000 fantastic was imposed in December 2025 for a violation recorded in Might 2025. A 3rd fantastic of $1,600 adopted in February 2026 for an earlier March 2025 inspection.
It is price noting that Marché C&T’s Montreal location is not the one one to have drawn regulatory consideration just lately. As famous in a previous MTL Blog roundup of Montreal grocery stores fined by MAPAQ in 2026, the chain’s Brossard location on Boulevard Taschereau was additionally fined $500 in February 2026 for failing to correctly label reside marine bivalve molluscs on show for bulk sale, a requirement that mandates merchandise present their harvest zone and harvest date.
MAPAQ fines are issued by the Montreal Municipal Court docket and revealed within the provincial meals security registry. The violations listed don’t essentially mirror present circumstances on the institution. In lots of circumstances, a number of months and even years can go between the date of the infraction and the official publication of the judgment, because the authorized course of runs its course.