Quebec Class Action Trial
The Quebec Class Action Trial: Canada’s Three Tobacco Companies Ordered To Pay More than 15 Billion to Quebec Victims.
Tobacco-Related Litigation in Canada (2016 edition)
Holding the tobacco industry accountable for its illegal activities, whether through criminal charges or civil suits, serves a number of public health objectives. These objectives include acting as a deterrent to prevent industry misconduct in the future and affording victims, including governments, the opportunity to recover financial losses caused by misconduct.
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Tobacco-Related Litigation in Canada (2015 Edition)
Holding the tobacco industry accountable for its illegal activities, whether through criminal charges or civil suits, serves a number of public health objectives. These objectives include acting as a deterrent to prevent industry misconduct in the future and affording victims, including governments, the opportunity to recover financial losses caused by misconduct.
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What Were They Smoking?
In the early 1990s, Canada’s three largest tobacco companies and affiliated transnational corporations were engaged in tobacco smuggling. Canadian governments lost billions of dollars from the illegal cross-border traffic in untaxed tobacco. In 2008 and 2010, these governments reached tobacco-friendly out-of-court settlements with all of the companies involved.
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Tobacco-Related Litigation in Canada (2014 edition)
Holding the tobacco industry accountable for its illegal activities, whether through criminal charges or civil suits, serves a number of public health objectives. These objectives include acting as a deterrent to prevent industry misconduct in the future, and, affording victims, including governments, the opportunity to recover financial losses caused by misconduct.
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Tobacco-Related Litigation in Canada (2013 edition)
Holding the tobacco industry accountable for its illegal activities, whether through criminal charges or civil suits, serves a number of public health objectives. These objectives include acting as a deterrent to prevent industry misconduct in the future, and, affording victims, including governments, the opportunity to recover financial losses caused by misconduct.
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Government of Ontario’s Statement of Claim in Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Download the Government of Ontario’s 2003 Statement of Claim against the tobacco industry in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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Robert N. Proctor: A History of the Knowledge – and Ignorance – of Harms from Cigarettes in Canada, 1950-2000
Download Robert N. Proctor’s expert report submitted in the Quebec class action lawsuits (Letourneau vs. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. et al. and Conseil québécois sur le tabac e la santé vs. JTI-Macdonald Corp. et al.)
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Tobacco-Related Litigation in Canada (2012 edition)
Holding the tobacco industry accountable for its illegal activities, whether through criminal charges or civil suits, serves a number of public health objectives. These objectives include acting as a deterrent to prevent industry misconduct in the future, and, affording victims, including governments, the opportunity to recover financial losses caused by misconduct.
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Tobacco-Related Litigation in Canada (2011 edition)
Holding the tobacco industry accountable for its illegal activities, whether through criminal charges or civil suits, serves a number of public health objectives. These objectives include acting as a deterrent to prevent industry misconduct in the future, and, affording victims, including governments, the opportunity to recover financial losses caused by misconduct.
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