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 agricultural 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.
“Why would they come up here? All the contraband tobacco that has arrived on their shores is grown in Ontario, manufactured in Ontario and shipped down in containers. Ontario’s tobacco industry — the illegal side of it — has become completely out of control.
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