Done With Pot, Moving On To Heroin

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Yes, commissions do take time for hearings & reports. I think Canada wants

I think Canada wants to do it really well, with the best combination of options they can find. The commission will probably report early 2018 and legislation might pass late 2018.

There is likely to be an election in 2019, four years after 2015, but it could be as late as 2020 or it could be earlier if the Liberals are popular in 2018, say, and want to lock that in for another 4 years.

I'm pretty sure the Liberals will want to have the whole deal sealed well before the next election. I don't think they want to run after the commission report and before legislation because then it makes the election too top heavy with the cannabis issue, too much like a referendum on it.

Alternatively they might call the election before the commission reports.