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Tenant vs. Landlord A dispute over residential rights has ended with a victory for the anti-smokers
Jump to full article: Montreal Gazette (ca), 2008-04-20
Author: JAN RAVENSBERGEN, The Gazette
Intro: Judge Normand Amyot of Quebec Court ruled Thursday that Fowler, a sales representative in her early 30s, had been out of line all along.
He ordered her to butt out, effective immediately, any time she's home.
A key element of Fowler's testimony before the Quebec Rental Board a year ago simply could not be believed, the judge ruled - Fowler's repeated contention that she never saw the words "no smokers" on a form to list references that Fowler had filled out for Koretski before their lease-signing.
With that 28-page ruling from Amyot, a soft-spoken nurse with no big money behind her handed a stinging defeat to an industry that reported to Health Canada it sold 40.5 billion cigarettes across the country in 2005.
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