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health care, public security and an active cultural create 400 direct jobs. The economic spin-offs are

life. estimated at $3.1 billion for Canada and $2.2 billion

in Quebec. Needless to say, the project will have a
Positive Partnership major economic impact.”

Weedon was ready not only for the state-of-the-art Moreover, the project is the impetus for the creation
greenhouse, but the multipurpose CannaCentre of an industrial cluster, which aims to root the

complex that will house a museum, auditorium, project in the community. The clusters aim to build

learning centre, restaurant, bookstore, hotel, and itself around medicinal cannabis and industrial
cannabis research and innovation centre.

The project came at a perfect time; with an
ageing population, Weedon was not immune

to devitalisation—the antidote to which is

modernity and innovative entrepreneurship,
and nothing checks those boxes like the

cannabis industry.

“This project represents an opportunity to

be put on the map and be attractive again,”
says Couture-Picard. The construction will

necessitate $223 million in investment and will

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