Toronto Mayor John Tory floated the idea of increasing fines for illegal cannabis dispensaries, after the City tried placing concrete slabs in front of one of them during a raid.
On Thursday, the "CAFE" dispensary simply moved the blocks to the side, after bylaw officers sealed up the location on Harbour St.
"I'm astonished that these corporate citizens and individual behind these companies decide that they're just going to deliberately flout the duly-passed law of the land and just say, thumb their noise at the system," Tory said. "It's so unfortunate."
Current fines for illegal dispensaries range from $25,000 to $1 million.
But Tory said one of the problems could be the businesses taking in more than what the maximum fine could be.
"Maybe we have to talk to the province down the road about even increasing those fines to be even bigger, so that people don't just treat this as something where they can just say, oh well that's fine, we'll just treat that like a tax," he said.
Ontario's first legal cannabis stores opened on April 1st and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario recently announced its second lottery for retail locations.