This week baby......get on the bandwagon Spring is in the air, Health Canada is getting desperate. Tourism will be a new ( high ) for visible opportunity. A flood of licenses are coming to supply shortages. Government hate missing out on anykind of tax revenue, buckle up, the flood gates are about to open
The demand has been difficult to forecast and it’s likely going to exceed what producers, what market analysts, what government had anticipated prior to legalization,” Schembri said. “But one of the side effects of that has been is that it’s encouraged many producers to build as fast as they can, as big as they can, in order to produce as much as they can.”
In an attempt to help expedite the backlog of licensed producers seeking Health Canada approvals, the federal government says they’ve hired extra staff.
“We have close to 130 licensed producers that are able to do the work,” Petitpas Taylor said. “We certainly recognize that we have several more actually in the queue and as such we’ve hired additional staff in order to deal with the processing.”