RE:Fed support announced? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his regular address from outside Rideau Cottage to announce an investment that helps bring together Canadian innovation and crops.
The government is contributing close to $100 million in the Merit Functional Foods plant in Winnipeg.
“This plant will be a world leader in plant-based proteins and create good jobs in a fast-growing field,” said Trudeau. “And by using 100 per cent Canadian input it will also support farmers who produce the canola and yellow peas used in Merit’s products.”
Trudeau said that as people start eating more plant-based products, Canada can create good, well-paying jobs, something that has already been done with the prairies-based Protein Industries Supercluster.