Recently the Ontario, BC and New Brunswick governments have decided to launch a lawsuit against the tobacco producers of Canada to “recover health-care costs from tobacco companies”.
This just shows how desperate these governments are get money as they’ve resorted to pretty much stealing money from the companies. These people know how much money they make from taxing the tobacco industry, which is why despite Ontario having extremely strict smoking laws, the government has never outright banned smoking or the selling of cigarettes. They know if that if they banned smoking, they would lose billions in tax dollars.
And now, these billions aren’t enough so they’ve decided to cheat the companies out of more money on the hypocritical grounds that they’re merely trying to recover the money the health care industry. If the government is really concerned about health, they can just ban smoking all together, instead going through the tedious process to come up with new, useless rules against smoking (how the hell does removing the cigarette cartons from shelves prevent smoking?).
While the government is recouping these losses, why don’t they sue automakers for health care costs incurred from auto incidents, or fast food chains for causing heart problems?
