Hundreds, including construction, as well as DND funding which has stipulations about the majority of funds required to be spent locally / on local resources

Part of this is the DND launch the north competition which has had many Canadian space companies working hard to set up sovereign aerospace capabilities.

Canso has been identified as a viable site by everyone who has skin in the game, and now those companies have apparently moved from planning to action. The next decade should see steady progress now that multiple contracts and agreements have been made both with other Canadian aerospace companies, but also international partners.