Health committee  Is that for Lisa?

Health committee  Lisa, do you want to go first? I can't see you.

Health committee  Thank you very much for that question. Just in response to Lisa's comments, I would piggyback on that and say sure, let's have a continuous conversation over the next five years, but we also need to start a dialogue and conversation immediately. I don't want to repeat a lot tha

Health committee  I'm pleased to jump in. This is not necessarily based on the policy work that FCM has done, but I can speak for my municipality. Having been a councillor, now into my fourth term, it would take a complete workup by staff on a bylaw, some of which could potentially involve the pub

Health committee  I don't have the number here today. We can certainly try to get it passed on to the chair and your committee for next week. We do know, and I know that's in the abstract, that there have been many members, many communities, and many municipalities.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was just going to say maybe the mayor has a little too much time on her hands to be watching that show. We don't really have a position on that either, Mr. Carrie. I appreciate the question. Because we're talking U.S. versus Canada I have to get this in,

Health committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to respond. Mr. Ayoub, I appreciate the question and I concur. That is pretty much evidenced by what the parliamentary budget officer suggests. I don't think everyone's just going to go into a car and smoke marijuana. I agree with you, sir

Health committee  May I go first?

Health committee  At this point, we've not had enough conversations on the potential taxation models to prefer a specific model. I think you know where I'm going with this, that even though there's not a specific model in mind, we are asking that support be provided to municipalities for the ongoi

Health committee  Yes. Thank you very much. I think Ms. Holmes expressed my sentiments well. In my case, it's more about getting it right for my three granddaughters, because anything I try to do at the municipal level, I frame on the basis of this being all about the future. We at FCM still ar

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. McKinnon. I have to say right up front, thank you very much for the promotion. I'm a councillor in the City of Halifax, and Mike Savage, a former member of Parliament, would not be pleased with me suggesting that I'm the mayor of Halifax.

Health committee  Touché. Sir, thank you for those comments. One thing about the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, it has great respect for the work the federal government is doing on all the files and I certainly wouldn't want to be combative in responding to your points. They're well taken

Health committee  That's one of the issues we have looked at, but not understanding what the retail model is going to be from province to province, this is where it becomes somewhat important. Truthfully, I don't like to sound like a worn-out recording, but we need to have the information. We need

Health committee  Personal cultivation is an area that could have many new implications for municipalities across the country and those need to be properly understood. At this point, it's not clear how this aspect of the legislation will be managed, but we foresee municipalities having to respond

Health committee  Obviously, it's a very important question. Unfortunately, we are not the sector experts on that particular issue. I would hope that each province is looking to their public health folks and their health departments on how to best deal with that. We really don't have the expertis