Health committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee today. I'm appearing on behalf of provincial and territorial chief medical officers of health and am providing a collective public health perspective, not individual provincial-territor

Health committee  I'm one of the senior officials from Nova Scotia on the FPT senior officials working group that has been working for over a year. From the outset we have been putting forward the need for a robust conversation with Canadians around cannabis and around the coming changes in the le

Health committee  I have two thoughts. It certainly creates a number of problems around continuing to normalize cannabis as totally socially acceptable. In Nova Scotia, we have had meetings with owners of rental properties and there are a number of substantive and real concerns, from their perspec

Health committee  Yes, the goal is to bring people into a legal market, but a legal market that is driven by the objectives of public health and public safety, not for profit.

Health committee  I don't disagree that we need to bring in edibles as part of this, but the world of edibles becomes very complex, and I think it's appropriate that we do this in a staged approach. There are enough complexities right now, as I'm sure you're well aware of from your hearings this

Health committee  I need to emphasize I'm not here representing the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia. I'm here representing the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health. But I will say that, like many other provinces, we're working as hard and fast as we can through a complex situation. My last poi

Health committee  Good morning to the committee, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I'm appearing on behalf of the chief medical officers of health for the 13 provinces and territories. I'm providing a collective public health perspective, not jurisdictional positions from an