Canadian CANNAINVESTOR Magazine July / August 2019 | Page 194

That’s the policy that forces you to pay hundreds of dollars more per year for dairy, poultry and eggs, because we have a cartel system in these sectors that benefit producers.

I have said we should abolish it, but with a transition period so that the producers can adapt to the new open and free market situation. We will also buy their production quotas, so that nobody who played by the rules suddenly loses everything they’ve invested.

It’s the same problem you’re describing with losing inefficient tax credits. My solution of course is to review all tax credits and abolish those that don’t serve any crucial purpose apart from buying the support of some groups. And use the money saved to lower taxes to everyone. When you abolish only one or two tax credits and you don’t do anything else, there are obvious losers. But if you do a comprehensive tax reform, and you lower taxes at the same time, you can build support for it because almost everybody will benefit. Especially because the economy as a whole will be more productive. That’s how it should be done.

That makes sense.

I guess I pretty much used up most of our time with that last question but because it is what we hear at that household level the most – it was worth it I think and thank you for your answers. Now, let’s just shift back to Cannabis for a moment before we wrap it up.

The black market continues to flourish we have been told and I think that is to be expected for a period of time. One of the obstacles is thought to be how the black market can embrace branding and marketing tools that the legal industry are forbidden from using. This is far too complex a subject and topic to just ask a question and get an answer … but could the government of Canada being doing anything different and what would you party do with respect to branding and marketing as well as further discouraging black market participation?

Not to be leading the answer but rather just an example … products with low to no THC that contain moderate to low levels of CBD are not the same as products with THC levels at or near the maximum allowed.

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