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ULaval news | WHEAT and the solidarity dollar: a citizen initiative with mixed results – Faculty of planning, architecture, art and design

January 14, 2025

Article published in Ulaval nouvelles on January 13, 2025 by Yvon Larose


Between 2018 and 2024, a few thousand residents as well as hundreds of businesses in the urban community of Quebec used a complementary local currency

The Complementary Local Currency Quebec project, or MLC Quebec project, was born in 2016, at the initiative of citizens of the central districts of Quebec. It ended in the fall of 2024. This audacious project, to say the least, was the subject of an analysis in the summer of 2024 by the master’s student in land use planning and regional development, Antoine Laforte.

“The experience of the MLC Quebec project gave relatively satisfactory results, even if the objective of being a long-term project was not achieved,” explains the man who presented the results of his analysis a few years ago. weeks during a student conference. […]

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The local exchange note, or WHEAT, was created in 2018. The solidarity dollar was launched in 2020.

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