BUSH TELEGRAPH
October 1st, 2002
BY MONICA DOBIETHE BUSH administration has told the Canadian government - bluntly - that if it wants to sue big US tobacco companies it must do it in Canadian courts, not American.Washington has urged the US Supreme Court to reject Canada's bid to revive its US$1 billion civil lawsuit against R.J Reynolds Tobacco, (thrown out last year), where the Canadian government claimed it lost tax revenues because of the firm's alleged involvement in tobacco smuggling into Canada in the early 1990's.A legal document written by the US Solicitor General Lawrence Wallace ...
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