The period leading up to the recent federal election has held signs of renewed optimism for many current and aspiring MMPR applicants after a period of relative inactivity on the licensing front. In typical fashion, these positive signs of change cannot be discerned via communication from the regulator.
Instead, as has become customary with everything MMPR, shifts in regulatory activity are discerned through the collective experience of Licensed Producers (“LPs”), MMPR applicants, industry consultants and others who have first-hand dealings with Health Canada on the MMPR licensing front.
So, what’s changing and what could it mean?