The need for weed: Business federation wants NLC to stay out of marijuana business CFIB’s Vaughn Hammond says private sector can reach all areas of the province cost-efficiently. When marijuana is legalized in Canada next year, the Newfoundland and Labrador branch of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business wants the provincial government to leave retailing up to the private sector. (Eric Engman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner/The Associated Press)