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Long-Term Debt
12 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2023
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Long-Term Debt [Text Block]

10. Long-Term Debt

    December 30, 2023     December 31, 2022  
    $     $  
Term loan facilities   180,000     43,748  
Revolving credit facilities   31,751     137,253  
Less: Unamortized debt issuance costs   (1,152 )   -  
Total credit facilities   210,599     181,001  
Finance lease liabilities (see note 6)   52,630     124,079  
Other   -     3,404  
Total debt   263,229     308,484  
Less: current portion   24,346     38,491  
Total long-term debt   238,883     269,993  

Scheduled maturities of long-term debt, including finance lease liabilities, are as follows:

    $  
2024   26,834  
2025   29,199  
2026   29,923  
2027   17,958  
2028   168,149  
Total gross maturities   272,063  
Less: imputed interest on finance lease liabilities   (7,682 )
Less: debt issuance costs   (1,152 )
Total debt   263,229  

Credit Facilities

On December 8, 2023, the Company entered into a new five-year Credit Agreement (the "New Credit Agreement") providing for (i) a $180.0 million term loan credit facility (the "New Term Loan Credit Facility") and (ii) an $85.0 million revolving credit facility (the "New Revolving Credit Facility" and together with the New Term Loan Credit Facility, the "New Credit Facilities"). The New Revolving Credit Facility includes $30.0 million of borrowing capacity available for letters of credit and provides for borrowings of up to $10.0 million on same-day notice including in the form of swingline loans. As at December 30, 2023, $5.9 million in letters of credit were issued but undrawn under the New Revolving Credit Facility. The New Credit Facilities terminate and replace the asset-based revolving and term loan credit obligations, commitments, liens and guaranties under the Company's Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 31, 2020 (as amended, the "2020 Credit Agreement"). The syndicate of lenders party to the New Credit Agreement is unchanged from the 2020 Credit Agreement.

As at December 8, 2023, the Company used proceeds of $141.9 million from the New Credit Facilities to repay in full the amounts owing under 2020 Credit Agreement, and $56.0 million to repay and terminate certain finance lease obligations (see note 6). The Company incurred $2.2 million of debt issuance costs in connection with the New Credit Facilities, of which $1.2 million was allocated to the New Term Loan Credit Facility and recorded as a deduction to long-term debt, and $1.0 million was allocated to the New Revolving Credit Facility and recorded as deferred financing costs in other long-term assets. Capitalized debt issuance costs are being amortized to interest expense over the five-year term of the New Credit Agreement. In addition, the Company incurred a loss on extinguishment of debt of $1.6 million, which reflected $1.1 million of third-party costs incurred in connection with the New Term Loan Credit Facility, and the write-off of $0.5 million of unamortized deferred financing costs related to the 2020 Credit Agreement due to a reduction in the credit commitments under the New Revolving Credit Facility.

The New Credit Facilities mature on December 8, 2028. Borrowings under the New Term Loan Credit Facility are repayable in quarterly principal installments of $2.3 million from the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2024 to the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2025, $3.4 million from the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2026 to the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2027, and $4.5 million from the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2028 to the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2028, with the remaining principal balance of $121.5 million due on the maturity date.

Borrowings under the New Credit Facilities bear interest at a margin over various reference rates, including a base rate (as defined in the New Credit Agreement) and SOFR, selected at the option of the Company. The margin for the New Credit Facilities will be set quarterly based on the consolidated total net leverage ratio for the preceding fiscal quarter and will range from 1.00% to 2.25% with respect to base rate loans and from 2.00% to 3.25% for SOFR loans. Prior to the completion of the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2024, the initial margins for the New Credit Facilities are 1.75% and 2.75% with respect to base rate and SOFR loans, respectively. As at December 30, 2023, the interest rate on outstanding borrowings under the New Credit Facilities was 8.22%. In addition, the Company is required to pay an undrawn fee under the New Revolving Credit Facility quarterly based on the consolidated total net leverage ratio for the preceding fiscal quarter ranging from 0.20% to 0.40% on the undrawn revolving commitments thereunder. The Company is also required to pay customary letter of credit fees, to the extent letters of credit are issued and outstanding under the New Revolving Credit Facility.

All obligations under the New Credit Facilities are unconditionally guaranteed by the Company and substantially all of the Company's existing and future direct and indirect wholly-owned material restricted subsidiaries organized in the U.S. and Canada (the "Subsidiary Guarantors") and, subject to certain exceptions and qualifications, such obligations are secured by first priority security interest in substantially all of the tangible and intangible assets of the Company and Subsidiary Guarantors.

The New Credit Facilities contain a number of covenants that, among other things, restrict, subject to certain exceptions, the Company's ability to: create liens on assets; sell assets and enter into sale and leaseback transactions; pay dividends, prepay contractually subordinated indebtedness and make other restricted payments; incur additional indebtedness and make guarantees; make investments, loans or advances, including acquisitions; engage in certain transactions with affiliates; fundamentally change the character of the Company's business; enter into contractual obligations that restrict the ability of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor to grant a lien on its assets in favor of the lenders and other secured creditors under the New Credit Facilities; and engage in mergers or consolidations. In addition, the Company is required to (i) maintain a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.20 to 1.00 as of the end of each quarterly test period and (ii) maintain a maximum consolidated total net leverage ratio of 4.00 to 1.00 for each quarterly test period prior to the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2024, 3.75 to 1.00 for each quarterly test period from the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2024 through the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2025, and 3.50 to 1.00 for each quarterly test period for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2025 and thereafter; provided that, if the Company consummates an acquisition for consideration in excess of $50 million in any quarterly test period, then the maximum consolidated total net leverage ratio may, at the election of the Company (on no more than two occasions), be increased to the lesser of (x) 4.25 to 1.00 and (y) the then applicable maximum consolidated leverage ratio plus 0.50 to 1.00, for the end of the four succeeding quarterly test periods.

The New Credit Facilities also contain certain customary affirmative covenants and events of default. As at December 30, 2023, the Company was in compliance with all covenants of the New Credit Agreement.

Interest Expense, Net

The components of interest expense, net are as follows:

    December 30, 2023     December 31, 2022     January 1, 2022  
    $     $     $  
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest (see note 5)   24,422     11,889     6,462  
Amortization of debt issuance costs   1,398     1,601     1,353  
Loss on extinguishment of debt   1,584     -     -  
Interest income   (495 )   (334 )   (263 )
Interest expense, net   26,909     13,156     7,552