Keep Saskatchewan’s cannabis market open, fair, and accountable.
Keep It Open is an industry-facing advocacy initiative focused on wholesale access, retailer choice, supplier opportunity, and evidence-based regulatory accountability in Saskatchewan’s cannabis sector.
This campaign does not ask visitors to make unsupported public claims. It encourages stakeholders to document relevant facts and bring evidence to the appropriate authorities.
Important disclaimer
This website is an advocacy and information resource. It does not make legal findings, regulatory findings, or findings of wrongdoing by any company, regulator, or individual. Any concerns described on this site should be understood as issues for review, investigation, public discussion, or evidence-based assessment by the appropriate authorities. Visitors should not submit or publish confidential, privileged, defamatory, or unlawful material.
Market access depends on trust, transparency, and fair dealing.
Saskatchewan’s cannabis retail and wholesale environment depends on retailers being able to access a fair range of products, suppliers being able to compete on reasonable terms, and consumers being able to benefit from choice, price competition, and innovation.
Keep It Open is concerned that market structure, private wholesale arrangements, data practices, inducements, or access barriers may reduce competitive choice in ways that deserve closer scrutiny.
The campaign is not asking the public to assume wrongdoing. It is asking industry participants to preserve evidence, document experiences, and bring relevant information to the proper authorities where competition, fairness, or regulatory concerns arise.
Retailer choice
Retailers should be able to make purchasing decisions based on product fit, pricing, availability, quality, and customer demand.
Supplier opportunity
Producers and brands should have a meaningful opportunity to reach Saskatchewan retailers without unreasonable barriers.
Consumer impact
Reduced competition can affect product variety, pricing, innovation, and service quality.
Regulatory confidence
A healthy market requires clear rules, transparent oversight, and confidence that concerns can be reviewed fairly.
Why this matters beyond one company or one dispute.
This campaign is about the conditions required for a competitive market to function. When retailers, suppliers, and consumers lose confidence in market access, the issue becomes larger than any individual commercial dispute.
Saskatchewan’s markets have always relied on fair access and trust between participants.
Open access
Retailers and suppliers should be able to participate in the market on reasonable, transparent terms.
Fair competition
Pricing, product availability, and commercial arrangements should reflect competition on the merits.
Consumer choice
Saskatchewan consumers benefit when product variety, innovation, and pricing are shaped by genuine competition.
Accountable oversight
Public confidence depends on rules that are clear, applied consistently, and open to review.
Facts, sources, and evidence.
This section only includes statements that can be supported. Every factual statement should include a source link, document reference, or clearly marked placeholder where a source must be added before launch.
Saskatchewan's cannabis distribution model
A short factual summary of the province's current distribution model will appear here once the legal and regulatory framework is confirmed against an official source.
Wholesale and retail licensing
Verified facts about licensing categories, regulatory responsibilities, and official rules governing wholesale and retail participants will be summarized here.
Competition concerns
Any mention of a Competition Bureau matter, complaint, investigation, or legal theory will be carefully sourced and reviewed before publication. The campaign does not publish unverified legal characterizations.
Industry evidence
Retailer or supplier experiences will not be published as fact unless documented and legally reviewed. Anonymous or confidential submissions will be summarized only in aggregate and only after legal review.
Keep It Open separates documented facts from concerns, opinions, and allegations. Claims should not be published unless they can be backed up by documents, official sources, correspondence, data, or first-hand evidence. Where evidence is sensitive, stakeholders should provide it directly to the appropriate authority rather than posting it publicly.
Take action carefully and responsibly.
If you are a retailer, supplier, employee, former employee, producer, distributor, or other industry participant with relevant information, the most useful action is to preserve records and bring evidence to the proper channel.
Bring evidence forward
If you have direct knowledge, documents, communications, pricing records, purchasing records, access concerns, inducement concerns, or other relevant information, preserve it carefully. Submit it only through appropriate legal, regulatory, or official channels.
Ask for transparency and review
Stakeholders may contact public officials or regulators to ask that market-access concerns be reviewed. Keep communications factual, respectful, and evidence-based.
What useful evidence may include.
- Dates and timelines
- Names of companies or parties involved
- Copies of written communications
- Pricing, invoice, or purchasing records
- Product availability records
- Screenshots with dates and context
- Notes from meetings or calls
- Any agreements, offers, incentives, restrictions, or conditions
- Names of potential witnesses
- Explanation of how the issue affected access, pricing, choice, supply, or competition
Do not alter, exaggerate, fabricate, or selectively edit evidence. Do not submit confidential or privileged material unless you have the legal right to do so. Consider getting legal advice before sharing sensitive business information.
Sample message to decision-makers.
A factual, respectful template. Personalize before sending. Add the recipient and any relevant context from your own experience.
Subject: Request for review of wholesale cannabis market access concerns in Saskatchewan I am writing to ask that Saskatchewan's cannabis wholesale and retail market be reviewed for fairness, transparency, and competitive access. My concern is that retailers, suppliers, and consumers may be affected if wholesale access, product availability, pricing, data practices, or commercial incentives reduce fair competition or limit choice. I am not asking you to assume wrongdoing. I am asking that credible concerns be reviewed through the appropriate regulatory or public-interest process, and that industry participants be encouraged to provide relevant evidence through proper channels. A fair cannabis market should support retailer choice, supplier opportunity, consumer value, and confidence in oversight. Kindly advise what process is available for stakeholders to submit concerns or evidence.
Frequently asked questions.
Contact the campaign.
Use this form for general campaign contact only. Do not submit confidential, privileged, defamatory, or legally sensitive material through this form unless the campaign has established a secure, legally reviewed intake process.