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TORONTO — Mayors across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area came to Premier Kathleen Wynne Tuesday looking for advice on how to handle the transition to legalized recreational marijuana with less than a year to go before the law changes.

But Wynne said despite introducing Ontario’s legalization framework earlier this month, the provincial government is still working to answer key questions about the proposed rules, including where stores will be located, how enforcement will be handled and the kind of resources that will flow to municipalities.

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“The challenges are complex, right from the siting of stores to the enforcement in public spaces,” Wynne said. “We need to make sure that as resources flow to municipalities, which they will have to do, we want to make sure they get to the right level of government.”

Wynne says some of the questions raised could be answered during a fall summit planned with police agencies to discuss enforcement. While municipalities are looking to the province for answers, there are still many questions the province has for the federal government before recreational marijuana is legalized next summer, she said.