From: The Hamilton Spectator
By Allan Woods
MONTREAL — Stained by organized crime and demonized by multinational cigarette makers, aboriginal reserves in Ontario and Quebec known for their cheap smokes are finalizing rules to raise prices and drive the criminal elements out of the industry.
But the increased revenues from the First Nations tobacco sales could also go toward legal challenges of Ottawa’s new contraband tobacco law, which aboriginals see as a violation of their constitutional rights to produce and sell tobacco.
