Ontario: dope dealer extraordinaire

The provincial government has blocked the private sector out of the soon-to-be legal marijuana-selling business.

A worker inspects plants at a Tweed Inc. marijuana-growing facility. Tweed is owned by Canopy Growth Corp., a licensed producer of pot that could benefit from the Ontario government's plan to buy the drug from such producers and sell it in a monopoly. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

September 13, 2017

OTTAWA—While I know the chances of anyone shedding any tears for me is akin to a snowball in hell, it is hard not to feel like in Central Canada these days governments are out to stick it to the business community. You’ve read my laments about the federal Liberals’ plan to change the way priva...

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