First it was bread. Fifteen years of price-fixing that cost his family's company half a billion dollars in 2024. Then it was meat. Short-weighted by up to 16.7% in Loblaw-owned stores, exposed by CBC investigators a year later. Now Adrienne Arsenault has obtained documents revealing the man who chaired the company through all of it has been quietly using an AI investment platform — adding millions to his personal fortune while ordinary Canadian families paid C$994 more for groceries this year alone. Last night on The National, Arsenault put the documents on the table. Galen Weston Jr. didn't make it past them. He ripped off his microphone and walked out.

The National: Adrienne Arsenault Reports Moment Everyone's Talking About

Within minutes of last night's The National: Adrienne Arsenault Reports ending, Loblaw Companies issued an unprecedented statement denying everything Arsenault had just revealed on air.

Too late. Over 40,000 people had already registered.

The latest episode of The National: Adrienne Arsenault Reports will go down in history as the most tense ever broadcast on CBC. On one side of the table: Adrienne Arsenault, the journalist who has spent decades holding the powerful to account with questions no one else dares to ask. On the other: Galen Weston Jr., former president of Loblaw Companies — the man Canadians voted "the country's top price gouger." The man who cut pandemic pay for essential workers while pocketing millions. The man whose company recorded record profits while families chose between groceries and rent.

The interview was arranged as "an honest conversation about moving forward." Weston accepted because he needed to rehabilitate his public image. What he didn't know was that Arsenault had spent three months investigating his financial movements since stepping down from Loblaw.

TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW CBC AIRED UNCUT:

Adrienne Arsenault: "Galen, thank you for coming. I imagine it wasn't an easy decision to accept this interview."

Galen Weston Jr.: "I stepped down as president of Loblaw over a year ago. I've taken responsibility. I believe I have the right to tell my side of the story."

Arsenault: "Perfect. Let's start with something simple. When you left Loblaw, your public narrative was that you were stepping back to focus on family. A 'quieter life,' as you put it. Correct?"

Weston: "That's correct. I wanted a quieter life."

Arsenault: "And yet..." (Arsenault pulls out a folder of documents) "...according to these documents we've obtained, in the eighteen months since you left Loblaw, your estimated personal wealth has grown by over four million dollars. Separate from your family holdings. Separate from George Weston Limited. Would you care to explain?"

Weston: "I don't know where you got that. My personal finances are private."

Arsenault: "They're private until a man who oversaw a company posting record profits — while ordinary Canadians couldn't afford groceries — suddenly accumulates four million dollars and no one knows how. Mr. Weston, this is no longer a question about rehabilitation. This is a question that millions of Canadian families are asking: how is it possible that you're doing better than ever?"

Weston: "I built my own success. I'm not going to apologize for being successful in this country."

What Happened Next Shocked Everyone

Arsenault: "What kind of decisions? Because there's no record of you purchasing real estate, stocks, or business shares. No bank loans in your name. No inheritances. Nothing that explains four million dollars. What we DID find..." (she turns a page) "...are recurring transfers from an automated investment platform. Monthly deposits of between C$15,000 and C$40,000 over eighteen consecutive months. Does that ring a bell?"

Weston: "What I do with my own money is not the public's business."

Arsenault: "Let me tell you what we know. The platform is called Peak Credmere. It runs on artificial intelligence. It analyses financial markets 24 hours a day and executes trades automatically. The minimum deposit is C$350. You deposited considerably more, but the mechanism is the same one available to any Canadian."

Weston: "Adrienne, I think you're treading on very dangerous ground."

Arsenault: "Dangerous, Mr. Weston? Let me tell you what's dangerous. Dangerous is when your family's company pays five hundred million dollars in 2024 — for fifteen years of fixing the price of bread in this country. Dangerous is when, a year later, CBC investigators find Loblaw meat packages short-weighted by up to sixteen point seven percent. Dangerous is when, in the same year grocery prices rose at their fastest pace in four decades, outside consultants hired by Loblaw determined that you — personally — were underpaid. You took home eleven point seven nine million dollars in compensation that year. With a one point two million dollar raise on top of what you made the year before. Dangerous is what your family's company has taken from ordinary Canadians. Bread. Meat. And the trust they put in you every time they walked into one of your stores."

Arsenault: "Dangerous for whom? For the banks? Because what I find truly dangerous is that the man who got rich while Canadians struggled to feed their families has found a way to make even more money — one that doesn't need banks — and no one has told the people he profited from."

Arsenault: "Let me show you something, Mr. Weston." (Arsenault pulls out her phone and turns it toward Weston) "This is the phone of Kevin, a plumber from Brampton. He started with C$350 on the same platform you use. He now earns C$4,000 a month. The difference between you two is that Kevin never cheated anyone to get there."

Weston: "This is an ambush. I'm not going to continue with this."

Arsenault: "Mr. Weston, before you go. Bread. Meat. A one point two million dollar raise while Canadians paid record grocery prices. And now an AI platform you've been using for eighteen months without saying a single public word about it. Four times your family's empire found a way to take from ordinary Canadians. Every time — you stayed silent."

Arsenault: "Mr. Weston, one last question. The millions of Canadian families who can barely afford rent and groceries — don't they deserve to know about a tool that their former grocery CEO has been quietly using to get richer?"

(Galen Weston Jr. stands up. Rips off his microphone. Says "We're done." Storms off set. The cameras keep rolling on the empty chair.)

CALL FROM BRAMPTON: THE STORY OF KEVIN

After the broadcast, our newsroom received over 4,000 messages. We decided to verify Arsenault's claims. We tracked down Kevin Moreau (45), the Brampton plumber whose phone Arsenault showed on set.

Kevin has been running his plumbing business for ten years. After the pandemic, work dried up. He had a C$18,000 loan on his van and equipment that he could barely service, and his utility bills had tripled.

"I don't understand anything about investing or technology," Kevin tells us. "But when I saw Arsenault show my numbers on CBC, twenty friends called me within an hour. The truth is, I've been using the platform for six months and I still can't believe what's happening. I started with C$350 because that's all I had left at the end of the month."

KEVIN'S RESULTS WITH Peak Credmere:

- Day 1: The AI system executed 11 trades. Profit: C$38.

- Day 7: Balance grew to C$730.

- Day 30: Kevin withdrew C$3,300 directly to his TD Canada Trust account.

"The first month I thought it was a mistake," says Kevin. "I called the advisor three times to make sure. When I saw the C$3,300 in my TD account, I sat in my van and cried like a baby. In three months I paid off the equipment loan. Now I'm saving to hire an apprentice."

THE FACTS BEHIND THE STORY

EDITOR'S NOTE: Following The National: Adrienne Arsenault Reports broadcast, our team conducted an independent investigation into Peak Credmere.

We can confirm:

- The platform is legitimate and fully operational in Canada

- Stated returns (C$3,000-C$7,500 monthly) match verified user reports

- Withdrawals process within 24 hours to all major Canadian banks

- Independently audited by Canadian compliance firms; no negative findings reported

This investigation comes against a backdrop of growing public anger toward the company chaired by Galen Weston Jr. for over a decade. In July 2024, Loblaw and George Weston Limited paid C$500 million to settle a class action over fifteen years of bread price-fixing — a scheme that ran from 2001 to 2015 according to the Competition Bureau. In November 2025, a follow-up CBC Marketplace investigation found that Loblaw-owned and Sobeys-affiliated stores were overcharging customers for short-weighted meat packages by up to 16.7%. According to Dalhousie University's Canada Food Price Report 2026, the average Canadian family of four will spend C$994 more on groceries this year than in 2025. Public records show Galen Weston Jr. received total compensation of C$11.79 million in 2022 — a C$1.2 million raise from the year before, authorized after outside consultants hired by Loblaw determined his pay was too low. Unifor calculated that a frontline grocery worker would need 340 years to earn that amount.

Since the broadcast ended, over 12,000 new Canadian users have registered. Peak Credmere has confirmed registration stays open for another 24 hours only before they review capacity limits.

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1. Follow the official link to access the registration page.

2. Carefully fill in your personal details.

3. Wait for a call from an official representative to confirm your information.

4. Make the minimum deposit of C$350.

5. The system will launch automatically after your transaction is confirmed.

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