3. Receivables Sales Program

On August 28, 2024, the Company entered into a Master Receivables Purchase Agreement, as amended on February 11, 2025 (the "Agreement"), with a third-party financial institution (the "Purchaser"), for the sale of designated trade receivables of certain eligible customers in exchange for cash proceeds (the "Receivables Sales Program"). Under the Receivables Sales Program, the maximum aggregate amount of outstanding receivables that can be sold to the Purchaser at any time is $42.0 million (December 28, 2024 - $30.0 million). The Agreement may be terminated by the Purchaser at any time with 30 days' notice.

The receivables sold under the Receivables Sales Program are without recourse to the Company for any customer credit risk. The Company does not retain any ongoing financial interest in the receivables sold under the Receivables Sales Program other than cash collection and administrative services. The Company has not recognized any servicing asset or liability as at September 27, 2025, as the fair values of the servicing arrangement and the fees earned are not considered material to the consolidated financial statements.

Receivables sold under the Receivables Sales Program are accounted for as sales of financial assets. The sold receivables are derecognized from accounts receivable on the Company's consolidated balance sheet at the time of sale to the Purchaser. For the quarter and three quarters ended September 27, 2025, the loss on sale of the sold receivables, representing the discount taken by the Purchaser, amounted to $0.6 million (September 28, 2024 - $0.2 million) and $1.6 million (September 28, 2024 - $0.2 million), respectively, which is included in other non-operating expense on the consolidated statements of operations for the quarter and three quarters ended September 27, 2025. Cash proceeds received from the Purchaser are classified as an operating activity in the consolidated statements of cash flows.

The following table summarizes activity related to the Receivables Sales Program:

	Three quarters ended
	September 27, 2025		September 28, 2024
	$		$
Receivables balance sold to the Purchaser, beginning of the period	24,986		-
Sale of receivables	175,594		19,999
Cash collected and remitted to the Purchaser	(159,746	)	-
Receivables balance sold to the Purchaser, end of the period⁽¹⁾	40,834		19,999
Cash collected and not remitted to the Purchaser⁽²⁾	(23,493	)	(11,102	)
Outstanding receivables sold, end of the period	17,341		8,897

(1) For the first three quarters of 2025 and 2024, the Company recorded increases of $15.8 million and $20.0 million, respectively, to cash flows from operating activities of continuing operations from receivables sold under the Receivables Sales Program, which are reflected in the consolidated statements of cash flows for the three quarters ended September 27, 2025 and September 28, 2024.

(2) Cash collected from customers on behalf of but not yet remitted to the Purchaser is included in accounts payable on the consolidated balance sheet as at September 27, 2025, with changes in such obligations reflected as operating activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows. There are no restrictions under the Agreement on the Company's use of the cash collected prior to the time it is due to be remitted to the Purchaser.