A company based in Maple Ridge has made some business history, becoming the largest Employee Ownership Trust in Canada, and the first from the social services sector.

Taproot Community Support Services, which has 750 employees in B.C., Alberta, and a small number in Ontario, announced this week that an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) acquired a majority share of the business. All employees have an equal shares in the company.

Taproot is the largest company to become EOT-owned since the federal government introduced this ownership model in 2024.

On an online call with the company CEO and the federal finance minister, Maple Ridge-based employee Kam Kaur offered her enthusiastic endorsement of the transaction.

"I'm really excited about being an owner. This is something to boast about, I'm

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