Some of the big players in the Montreal game industry are accused of colluding to create across the board lower salaries for employees to save on costs. If one company decides they want to pay employees less then that is their choice. Widespread collusion, instead of letting the market and employee’s skills set salary value, is a big problem and will just end up driving the talented developers away from the area. Epic fail.
According to the article it sounds like this plan has been scuttled. Hopefully that is the case.