OTTAWA – A federal court judge has ruled that Henk Tepper’s lawsuit against the Government of Canada can proceed.
The New Brunswick potato farmer spent 373 days behind bars in a Beirut jail three years ago. It’s alleged that Tepper arranged for the sale of potatoes to Algeria that the Algerian government deemed unfit for human consumption.
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Tepper was eventually released and last year, he launched a $16.5-million suit against the federal government, arguing it didn’t protect his Charter rights.
According to Tepper’s lawyer, the Government of Canada had made a motion to have Tepper’s case dismissed, on the basis his lawsuit had no “reasonable prospect of success.”
On Thursday, the judge dismissed that motion, with costs.
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