Specialist carpenter Jeremie Gurvan documented on YouTube the process of building the massive catapult, which was commissioned by a local francophone association.

His contraption was designed to launch fake cheese curds more than 60 feet onto a big fake poutine.

Mr Gurvan worked for around 400 hours on the project over the course of more than two months, CTV News reports.

It finally made its debut at a francophone festival in British Columbia and is now set to be auctioned off.

It could be repurposed as a mascot for a poutinerie, Mr Gurvan has suggested.