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Canola Growers Class Action
The class action law firm, Merchant Law Group LLP, has launched class proceedings against Agriculture Canada and the Canadian Canola Growers Association regarding a stolen lap top computer containing personal information and financial information for approximately 38,000 Canadian farmers who participated in the cash advance program through the Canadian Canola Growers Association.
The program requires farmers to complete an application form containing personal and confidential information, including their name, address, social insurance number, bank account numbers, and permit book numbers.
On March 30, 2008, a lap top computer containing the confidential information of approximately 32,000 farmers was stolen, compromising the personal and financial information of these farmers and exposing them to identity theft and loss from their bank accounts.
On or about June 3, 2008, more than two months after the theft, Agriculture Canada sent out letters notifying farmers of their potential exposure.
If you have taken any cash advances through the Advance Payments Program at any time in the last five years, you should notify your bank of possible exposure and ask them to report any unusual transactions on your accounts. Ask your bank manager what other steps you need to take in order to protect your interests. You should also instruct your bank manager to put a notice of theft of personal information on your file.
You may wish to contact Credit Reporting agencies like TransUnion and EquiFax to advise them of the theft. You can reach TransUnion's Fraud Victim's Assistance Department at 1-800-663-9980. The Equifax Consumer Fraud Division can be reached at 1-800-465-7166.
IF YOU HAVE TAKEN A CASH ADVANCE THROUGH THE CANADIAN CANOLA GROWERS ASSOCIATION DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS, PLEASE CONTACT MERCHANT LAW GROUP IF YOU WISH TO JOIN THIS CLASS ACTION OR TO SIMPLY GET MORE INFORMATION BY COMPLETEING THE BELOW FORM. (Please note, providing your information creates no financial obligation for you. You are not charged any fee or cost for joining this class action - we are simply paid a contingency fee from the compensation recovered, if successful.)
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Merchant Law Group LLP has 12 offices across Canada, with lawyers practising law in six Canadian provinces and an American state.
Tony Merchant, Q.C., and our firm is well known for their involvement in Mass & Class Action cases in Canada, including class proceedings regarding Complete Contact Lens Solution, Silicon Breast Implant, Winners/HomeSense, HSBC Mutual Funds, Various Cellular Phone Fees, Molson-Coors Merger, Conrad Black/Hollinger, GM Gasket Manifolds, Lead Paint in Toys (and similar consumer products), Menu Foods, Paxil, Vioxx, Agent Orange, Métis Veteran Benefits, Cryptosporidium Water, Sony, Residential School litigation, CPR Anhydrous Ammonia, and cases regarding ISM Information Security, Tundra noxious gas emissions, Zonolite, Canadian Wheat Board Pool transfers, and various other cases. Tony Merchant is known to be one of Canada’s most active litigators with more than 600 reported cases in leading Caselaw Journals, having argued thousands of cases before the Canadian and American Courts, in Trial and Administrative Courts, and the Courts of Appeal of various American and Canadian jurisdictions, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Tony Merchant, Q.C., has a long history of pursuing public policy cases and was an elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A.).