{"id":57607,"date":"2019-04-23T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=57607"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:48","slug":"armstrong-ottawa-should-stop-leaving-canadians-in-the-dark-on-cannabis-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/04\/armstrong-ottawa-should-stop-leaving-canadians-in-the-dark-on-cannabis-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Ottawa should stop leaving Canadians in the dark on cannabis supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-ottawa-should-stop-leaving-canadians-in-the-dark-on-cannabis-supply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in the\u00a0<em>Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a> about conflicting information being provided about Canada&#8217;s cannabis supply.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Federal-provincial feuding over cannabis reignited last week. Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli complained of national product shortages. Meanwhile, federal Border Security Minister Bill Blair stood by his claim cannabis supplies are sufficient. In reality, Ottawa\u2019s own data support Mr. Fedeli. But they also show supplies are finally improving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ontario is clearly short of cannabis, despite being six months into legalization. That\u2019s why it\u2019s initially licensing only 25 stores. And why it\u2019s promising each one just 25 kilograms of product weekly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ontario\u2019s shortage isn\u2019t unique. Statistics Canada data show only one-fifth of national cannabis spending is legal. Even Canada Border Services Agency reportedly blames shortages for encouraging illegal imports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite all that, Health Canada denies any national shortage. It instead tweets about increasing cannabis inventories and producer sites.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mr. Blair\u2019s stand as lead minister for Cannabis Act implementation is similar. On April 10, his office again insisted cannabis supplies \u201cexceed existing demand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-ottawa-should-stop-leaving-canadians-in-the-dark-on-cannabis-supply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in the\u00a0Globe and Mail about conflicting information being provided about Canada&#8217;s cannabis supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[5191,739,594,4395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57608,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57607\/revisions\/57608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}