MONTREAL — After nearly three decades fighting Canada's tobacco giants, Lise Blais is close to getting compensation for the lung cancer her late husband...
MONTREAL — After nearly three decades fighting Canada's tobacco giants, Lise Blais is close to getting compensation for the lung cancer her late husband developed from smoking cigarettes .
"For sure we got discouraged but I've always said I'll go to the end," Blais, 81, said at a news conference in Montreal on Friday. After a prolonged five-year process, a proposed plan of arrangement developed through mediation was filed in an Ontario court on Thursday. The three tobacco companies had sought creditor protection in Ontario in early 2019 after they lost an appeal in a landmark court battle in Quebec.
"When we took this case in 1998, as far as we knew, there had never been a single person who had received a single penny in compensation from a tobacco company," he said. "Every single attempt had failed, and no one has ever achieved what we've achieved. There’ll be tens of thousands of people who will receive compensation."
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