Provinces confront Morneau in feud with feds over marijuana-proceeds pot
(WorldNews Canada)

OTTAWA — A cross-country squabble over how best to divvy up the proceeds of Canada’s coming legal-weed windfall is about to intensify as finance ministers gather for high-stakes talks in Ottawa. For the provinces and territories, a key question looms: what entitles Ottawa to claim so much as half of the tax revenues that will start flowing when marijuana is legalized next summer? In anticipation of legalization, the federal Liberal government — which has long insisted...