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Q. Aurora sold a record 354 kilograms of cannabis for $3.1 million in November. Will you be able to produce enough to meet demand ahead of legalization in July?

A. Aurora is growing our production very, very quickly. We now have four production facilities — two in Alberta, two in Quebec — and we are going to be able to make a major contribution to being ready for consumer legalization in the summer of 2018. Collectively, the industry is putting together new capacity, building new facilities and creating more capacity to sell at a breakneck pace. So will we be ready on Day 1? I’m not sure if that’ll be the case — but very soon after we’re going to have enough capacity to replace the illegal market with legal, regulated (and) hence, safer, cannabis.

Q. Legalization is only six months away and some people are worried all levels of government aren’t quite ready for it. What concerns do you have about the system, and if July comes and goes without legalization, what’s Aurora going to do?

A. People ask me if I have concerns about the system and I really don’t. In Canada, we’ve established the world’s best, most effective, most well-developed medical cannabis system with more than 80 licensed producers in this country, and we have government officials from around the world coming to visit Canada to see how we made it work so well. We’re going to get consumer legalization right, as well.

Q. Which distribution model does Aurora prefer?

A. A privatized model or a hybrid model, and there’s a specific reason for that: We’re big enough that we’ll do great no matter what model provinces introduce, but we are also interested in fairness — and why not? We’re at the outset of a system, we’d like to see it done right. And we would particularly like to see the economic benefits from the creation of this brand-new industry be as broad and as widely available as possible. We want there to be room for the little guy. We want there to be room for small businesses and entrepreneurs. That’s the way to create an innovative, thriving, dynamic industry that’s not just dominated by large organizations like provincial buyers and the largest companies in the system.