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The economy determines how opportunities are created, how prosperity is distributed, and how resources are invested for the future. All Quebecers, including English speakers and their communities, depend on the economy to live, work, and thrive individually and collectively. A healthy Quebec economy is the foundation of a vital community. The future prosperity of the OLMCQ depends on its full participation in the developing economy.
Today, the economy is being transformed by three powerful forces.
Artificial Intelligence & Digital Technology
Official Language Minority Community of Quebec
Effective economic development will ensure OLMCQ access to opportunities and the necessary assets to capitalize on them. By fully engaging with the transformative forces reshaping Québec’s economy, English speakers and their communities can participate meaningfully in high-potential sectors. This is how economic development delivers tangible benefits for individuals and their communities: it attracts investment, generates increased employment incomes, and enhances business and social enterprise revenues. By doing so, economic development also reduces persistent economic disparities
Why Collaborative Economic Development Matters
The OLMCQ includes more than 1.25 million Quebecers—approximately 13% of the population spread across every region of the province. This community makes important contributions to Quebec’s economy while navigating its own cultural challenges and opportunities. Although resilient and adaptable, economic disparities persist for the OLMCQ: unemployment is often higher, incomes lower, and poverty rates steeper than among the Francophone majority.
CEDEC optimizes the economic power of Quebec’s English-speaking community through four strategic functions:
- Applied Research: Tracking emerging trends and labor market shifts.
- Opportunity Assessment: Aligning community potential with Quebec’s economic drivers.
- Capacity Building: Mobilizing public, private, and civil society partners for collective action.
- Impact Measurement: Evaluating results to strengthen future growth.
Collaboration is the engine of innovation and the strategic edge for Quebec’s English-speaking community.
Collaboration is the OLMCQ's Strategic Economic Development Edge
In a landscape where scale, adaptability, and innovation are crucial, the ability to gather diverse partners and foster collective action is the OLMCQ’s most powerful tool for creating jobs, increasing revenues, attracting investment, and ensuring long-term community vitality.
This collaboration is the key to the OLMCQ’s strategic economic growth. It enhances the community’s ability to overcome ongoing disparities: its minority status, smaller size, and geographic dispersion.
Strong partnerships across public, private, and civil society sectors enable the OLMCQ to pool resources, share risks, and leverage networks that extend its influence far beyond what any single organization or community could achieve alone.
Collaboration also helps the OLMCQ align local, regional, provincial, national, and global assets, positioning English-speaking Quebecers as essential contributors to the progress of Quebec and Canada.