Editor’s Note: How is illegal Canadian tobacco getting to Latin America? Is it crossing the US?
From: Farmers Forum
NORFOLK COUNTY — Tobacco county has gotten a dirty reputation in Latin America as the provider of contraband tobacco.
“Just last month I was interviewed by a journalist with La Reforma. They came up from Mexico City to my little constituency office,” Haldimand-Norfolk MPP and ag critic Toby Barrett told the Ontario Legislature on Nov. 27. “A film crew came up from Mexico. This spring, I was interviewed by a camera crew from Guatemala, and another crew came from Costa Rica doing a documentary on illegal tobacco.
