QUEBEC — The Quebec government asked the federal government again on Wednesday to push back the marijuana legalization deadline by one year, one day before the province tables its own cannabis bill. Quebec Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois said more time is needed to figure out how tax revenues will be divided between Ottawa and the provinces. Charlebois and Finance Minister Carlos Leitao told reporters Quebec rejected Ottawa’s offer to split the marijuana excise tax 50-50 between the federal government and the provinces. Quebec had asked Ottawa last June to delay the implementation of the marijuana law, to no avail. Her bill, to be tabled in the legislature Thursday, is expected to create a provincially owned corporation — the Societe quebecoise du cannabis — that will control and sell marijuana in the province.

Source: National Post November 15, 2017 23:03 UTC