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CAN (NB): New Brunswick's govt cannabis monopoly still losing money

Earlier this week, Cannabis NB CEO Patrick Parent appeared in Fredericton to give provincial lawmakers some bad news.

More than a year after legalization, he told them, New Brunswick’s government-owned cannabis monopoly was still losing money, and had no prospect of making money in the current fiscal year. The closest thing he had to offer as a glimmer of hope was the possibility that Cannabis NB might start to turn a profit in the 2020-21 fiscal year.

For the moment, though, Cannabis NB — which the cash-strapped province once hoped would be a revenue source — is bleeding money, with a $1.5-million loss in the second quarter.

“We’re losing our shirt,” Premier Blaine Higgs complained in October. This week, before Parent’s appearance, he grimly told reporters that “we’re not going to keep losing money on this.”

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