Over the next four years, the Quebec government will invest $100 million as part of the Entrepreneurial Vision (2025-2028), a policy that allows Quebec City to give a boost to businesses in the region.
At least that is the announcement made late Monday morning by Jonatan Julien, minister responsible for the Capitale-Nationale region, and Bruno Marchand, mayor of Quebec.
Both insisted on the fact that the current Vision (2018-2024) represented government investments of $94.5 million and that this allowed a contribution to real GDP of $820 million. Some 451 businesses were supported, and the number of jobs maintained or created is estimated at nearly 11,000.
“Economic Vision 2026, powered by the Capitale-Nationale Region Fund, stimulates the growth of our businesses. The resulting benefits have major effects on our economy,” said Mr. Julien.
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Similar reasoning from Mayor Marchand, who estimated that “Quebec’s Entrepreneurial Vision is a formidable economic development tool for the region. For each dollar invested in our businesses, $8.70 of contribution to GDP was generated.”
As part of this Vision, the sums disbursed by the Government of Quebec pass through the City of Quebec before being given to businesses when their projects qualify.
Container terminal
Furthermore, Mayor Marchand commented on information published Friday evening by -. We learned that the Vigilance Committee for Port Activities (CVAP), on which representatives of five neighborhood committees sit, voted on Thursday against the container terminal project envisaged by the company QSL, in the bay sector. from Beauport. The vice-president of the executive committee, Marie-Josée Asselin, abstained from voting on this resolution.
“We will wait for the project. But before saying that we are against a project, we want to let people develop the idea and present it, so that we can measure it according to its value,” said Bruno Marchand.
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The latter spoke of “an interesting project in its early stages. We will let it build. We say yes at the start, and after that, we will measure him according to his strengths. We want an enthusiastic and ambitious city.”
Abstention
The mayor of Quebec minimized the scope of his municipal councilor’s abstention. “It’s not very serious,” he said. It is a committee, currently, on which people are saying: “We are against it, we want a resolution.” She is not to be against it. She knows our position to tie the two together. She abstained, that’s all.”
Patrick Paquet, unelected leader of Équipe priority Québec, rather stated this: “I always had the impression that Mme Asselin was against [le projet de terminal de conteneurs] then she abstains from voting because she follows the party line.” The latter also said he was convinced that this file constitutes “a stone in the shoe” of municipal councilor Mélissa Coulombe-Leduc, from the mayor’s team, who sits within the CVAP, but who was not present during of Thursday’s vote.
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