Ontario parties pledge different approaches to clustering of cannabis shops

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Ontario's Liberals and New Democrats are pledging to revisit a model for licensing cannabis stores they say isn't working — a problem Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford said the market will resolve.

Clusters of cannabis stores have cropped up in some communities, while other Ontario municipalities have banned the retailers altogether, leading to what some describe as unequal access to the drug across the province.

He described clustering as a "side effect" of the Progressive Conservative government's approach to distributing legalized cannabis. The Tories changed the cannabis retail model because they said expanding the number of stores and moving to a private system would better address demand and curb black market sales."It's not good enough," Del Duca said of Ford's system. "Just having it be a random arbitrary process? Not good enough."

"It doesn't matter if it's cannabis or another type of the store. The market will take care of it. There's no way you can cluster any type of business beside each other. It's like putting six convenience stores together. There's going to be two that might survive," he said at a campaign stop in London, Ont., on Saturday."I leave that up to the municipalities. No one knows their community better than the municipalities," he said.

 

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Why were cops called on me to see I was bloody innocent in the TTC?. Millions pay crap on LRT, Bus but, who give a Shit Nobody. Wow racist, haraments, threatening.

I'm not a conservative person, but Toronto really looks like a city of losers with all the cannabis shops everywhere. It looks like a city that is full of people, especially men, who want to be impaired and also people who don't care how horrific they and their homes smell.

I think Canada has much more pressing problems than clustering of cannabis shops...the state of our country and it's politicians. 🙄

All four should be in jail for fraud

good. they're out here swallowing up literally everything. like, did the convenience store/KFC/bank REALLY need to be made into a weed store? i don't think so.

Dougie's gonna sell out behind the Becker's… like he used to?

The way this woke...federal....left wing....sjw....And whatever else is going, we need one on every corner just to stay sain.

Tackle climate change, open more pot shops!🌿

lol

First one to accept Dogecoin wins...

Who cares? Let the free market decide. In another year or two, only a few shops will have survived.

Ya that is the big concern right now..

fordnation BonnieCrombie can we get a ontario cannabis store in churchill meadows area ?!?!

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