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The head of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union has apparently revealed the secret location of the Ontario Cannabis Store warehouse — as well as the identity of the private company operating it — following an incident in which he claims police were called on a union representative who was at the site.

In a press release Tuesday, OPSEU president Warren (Smokey) Thomas said the Ford government had called Halton Regional Police to a “privately operated cannabis warehouse” on Plymouth Drive in Oakville, Ont., in order to stop workers at the warehouse from talking to an OPSEU representative.

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“Calling in officers from Halton Regional Police to stop OPSEU from talking to these workers is not only a complete waste of police resources, it also violates their right to join a union,” Thomas said. “This isn’t a security issue. Our staff have a right to be there.”

The union leader said he was tipped off about the location of the cannabis warehouse from a newspaper reporter, and after some digging confirmed that it was indeed the location in Oakville. “We went by and knocked on the door and started talking to some workers about a union. We want to get them in the union one way or another,” he said.