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Action claims $500 million in damage from provincial, federal governments
Jump to full article: Tillsonburg (Ont) News (ca), 2009-06-14
Author: Jeff Helsdon
Intro: New Tobacco Alliance Committee has launched a $500 million claim against the Canadian and Ontario governments for their alleged part in the destruction of the local tobacco growing industry.
Ontario MP Randy Hillier, who was the guest of honour at a barbecue hosted by Oxford-Norfolk-Elgin Landowners barbecue at the Purdy farm in Courtland on Saturday, announced the launch of the lawsuit. In the past, Hillier – who is now running for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party – has supported tobacco farmers by appearing at numerous rallies when he was the head of the Ontario Landowners Association.
The press release outlining the lawsuit blames the governments over the last decade for trying “to tax cigarettes out of the market. The predictable result is that instead this has created a black market which delivers cigarettes to Canadians at one-third the price of legal cigarettes.”
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