{"id":57465,"date":"2015-07-29T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T00:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57465"},"modified":"2015-07-29T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T00:50:06","slug":"medical-marijuana-suit-over-alleged-federal-privacy-issue-certified-plaintiffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/29\/medical-marijuana-suit-over-alleged-federal-privacy-issue-certified-plaintiffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical marijuana suit over alleged federal privacy issue certified: plaintiffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57466\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Marijuana.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57466\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Marijuana.png\" alt=\"(Photo from Flickr\/Katheirne Hitt)\" width=\"507\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Marijuana.png 507w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Marijuana-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from Flickr\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/milkwhitegown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Katheirne Hitt<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX \u2013 The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class action started on behalf of medical marijuana licensees alleging that Health Canada violated their privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs allege in a news release that Health Canada sent notices to over 40,000 participants of the Marihuana Medical Access Program advising them of changes to regulations governing the use of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>They say the envelopes sent in November 2013 made clear they were sent by the program, and therefore failed to protect the identity of the recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are seeking damages for breach of contract, breach of confidence, invasion of privacy and Charter violations.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations haven\u2019t been proven in court.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has 30 days to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX \u2013 The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class action started on behalf of medical marijuana licensees alleging &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":57466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-57465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}