More than 2,000 Nova Scotia citizens will be represented in Halifax this June when lawyers go before a federal judge in an attempt to certify a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 40,000 medical marijuana users for allegedly having their privacy breached by Health Canada in 2013, The Chronicle Herald reports. In November 2013, Health Canada mailed the authorized marijuana users and growers information about the Marijuana Medical Access Program, but the mail-out contained the program name as well as the participants’ names in clear view instead of the normally plain envelope, the report states. Health Canada said it was a clerical error. The lawsuit claims the agency was negligent, careless and reckless in the case. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada had concluded Health Canada violated the Privacy Act.
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