The chief executive of CannTrust Holdings Inc. appeared in a promotional video filmed directly outside an unlicensed cannabis grow room at the company’s Pelham, Ont., facility in early 2019, according to a former employee who was present when the video was shot.
“I knew RG8 was not licensed because they used to announce if a room came online,” said one of the former employees, whose role was supervising grow technicians in the facility. “The thing that blew my mind was when Aceto was standing right in front of RG8 filming that video, doing an interview. That was way before the room became legal.”
The room was also referenced in a Globe and Mail report on Tuesday that quoted a November 2018 email by CannTrust’s director of quality and compliance, Graham Lee, telling several top company executives including Aceto that they had “dodged some bullets” with regards to a Health Canada inspection. In a July 8 statement, the company said that Health Canada had given it a non-compliant rating for growing cannabis in five unlicensed rooms in the Pelham facility. Those five rooms, which were not identified in the statement, only received Health Canada licensing in April 2019, two months after the video was published on YouTube.
“The Independent Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CannTrust is in the final stages of a thorough investigation of these matters as part of our due diligence requirements. We expect to conclude this investigation within days and will take all appropriate actions immediately thereafter,” Marcovitch said.
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