Nova Scotia’s Finance Minister will be meeting with her federal and provincial counterparts next week.
Karen Casey says it’s routine for the finance ministers to meet every six months.
While she’s there, she will be discussing who will foot the bill when cannabis becomes legal.
“We’re looking at what our costs will be and we’ll be asking the federal government to identify what their costs will be. I think those bits of information need to be on the table before there’s ever a determination of what that split might be.”
“What we’re looking at is who’s going to bear the cost for what will happen on July first of 2018.”
At the province’s cannabis legalization announcement yesterday, Justice Minster Mark Furey raised concerns that a fifty-fifty split of profits between the federal and provincial governments would leave Nova Scotia paying 100 percent of the costs.
