We've already talked about the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Guidelines on implementing that treaty state that governments should not “accept, support or endorse partnerships...with the tobacco industry or any entity or person working to further its interests.”
Given that Philip Morris International owned 21% of Medicago shares at the time the Government of Canada signed its advance purchase agreement with the company, can you explain why the government didn't believe that this entity was working to further the interests of the tobacco industry?