Pot Is So Hot in Canada That Firms Are Importing Workers
- Biggest companies are recruiting for 1,700 open positions
- Soft-gel encapusulation manager is just one open position
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It was mid-summer, less than three months before Canada legalized recreational marijuana, and Vic Neufeld had a problem.
The chief executive officer of Aphria Inc. had just hired 50 people to work in the pot producer’s greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario and by the end of the first week all but eight had quit.