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Cracking down on gasoline price-fixing is a priority for Canada’s Competition Bureau, but the bureau, because of confidentiality concerns, can’t say whether or not it’s investigating what might be behind Metro Vancouver’s soaring fuel costs.

On Tuesday, Premier John Horgan called for consumer-protection officials to examine Metro’s soaring gas prices and said he would push Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take action on what he has termed as “gouging” by fuel companies.

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“We recognize that gasoline prices are an important issue for Canadians and cracking down on anticompetitive conduct in the gasoline sector is a priority for the Competition Bureau,” bureau spokesman Marcus Callaghan wrote in an emailed response to Postmedia News.

Prices across Metro hit $1.73 per litre at many gas stations, with an absolute high of $1.79 per litre at one Delta location (which has since dropped its price to $1.74), according to crowdsourced reports to GasBuddy.com.