Conservative Staffer Fired After Urging Senators to Delay Vote on Marijuana Legalization Bill

The June 7 deadline could not have been met were senators to adopt the proposal advanced by Malcolm Armstrong, who argued that a special committee should examine a lengthy list of complex issues. Senators are being encouraged to postpone a vote on a bill to legalize recreational cannabis by a now-former employee of the Conservative’s chief critic of the legislation. Sen. Claude Carignan said Friday he did not authorize Malcolm Armstrong, whom he’d hired on…