Jeff Andreas

I was surprised to see it, because it’s very rare for Health Canada to grant these types of exemptions. But the ability of Health Canada to give medical or research companies or scientific companies exemptions to rules around production, distribution, even sale and possession of controlled substances has always existed. That’s actually in use in lots of instances in Canada.

But at the end of the day, it’s really not a decision that is a political one. It’s a decision that is medical and scientific and that’s why it was a decision made by Health Canada, presumably, free from political interference

Kyla Lee on NL Morning with Jeff Andreas