Canac edges toward approval of new store

RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, Que. — A new Canac location has cleared a significant administrative hurdle as this city’s council approved an easement related to a parcel of land within the Rivière-du-Loup Golf Club. Under an agreement between the two parties, the club is to transfer a parcel of land to Canac in exchange for a wetlands site where the hardware chain wants to build a new outlet. Canac will pay the club to symbolically transfer two of its fairways. The deed of easement is an administrative step toward receiving the necessary certificate of authorization from Quebec’s environment ministry for the project to proceed. “This is the last step,” Mayor Sylvie Vignet told the media. “We’ve been working on it but we’re not giving up.”