The law in Canada specifies how you round both down and up, and it’s not ambiguous. The reason why it hasn’t happened in Canada is because the law in Canada trivially renders your proposed method impossible, not because Canadian companies haven’t specced into gouging enough.
With that basic misconception cleared up, I’ll ask again: What would be the mechanism by which this ‘price gouging’ would occur?
The law in Canada specifies how you round both down and up, and it’s not ambiguous. The reason why it hasn’t happened in Canada is because the law in Canada trivially renders your proposed method impossible, not because Canadian companies haven’t specced into gouging enough.
With that basic misconception cleared up, I’ll ask again: What would be the mechanism by which this ‘price gouging’ would occur?