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Leamington pot grower Aphria Inc. is so high on the prospect of Canada soon legalizing the recreational use of marijuana that it’s giving Hydro One an ultimatum — guarantee extra power or the company builds its own power plant.

“We don’t have confidence that Hydro One can supply the power we need,” Aphria CEO and president Vic Neufeld told the Star on Wednesday.

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Essex County, he said, has already lost “a huge amount of greenhouse growing” business to Michigan and Ohio as a result of Hydro One’s inability to supply adequate power for such new agricultural investments.

A marijuana growing operation, however, wouldn’t be similarly welcome across the border, so Aphria is stuck with its Canadian location.

The Trudeau Liberal government’s point man on the marijuana file, Scarborough MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair, is expected as soon as next week to divulge recommendations on how Ottawa should proceed with legalization. Former deputy prime minister Anne McLellan recently handed in her task force report on pot legalization and regulation, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated on the weekend that voters gave his government “a clear mandate” to proceed on legalization of recreational weed.