Issue

Economy, productivity and employment

Growth, private investment, productivity, innovation, small and medium-sized businesses, wages, employment and Quebec's competitiveness.

Why it matters

Economic growth and businesses' ability to invest determine the government's fiscal room and job creation. The government placed the economy among its five priorities for spring 2026.

Documented party positions

Coalition avenir Québec

Priorité à la croissance, à la productivité et à la diversification des marchés; baisse d'impôt annoncée pour des PME et soutien à des secteurs stratégiques.

Parti libéral du Québec

Alléger le fardeau fiscal et administratif des entrepreneurs et PME, accélérer l'investissement et la productivité et ouvrir davantage les marchés publics aux PME québécoises.

Parti québécois

Soutenir la création de richesse et les PME, notamment par des mesures d'allégement fiscal et une stratégie économique liée à l'indépendance et aux régions.

Parti conservateur du Québec

Réduire taxes, bureaucratie et subventions aux entreprises afin de privilégier un environnement plus concurrentiel et l'entrepreneuriat.

Related promises

Convert 25% of aid to eligible SMEs into direct, non-repayable aid

Parti libéral du Québec

Why it matters

Documented party positions

Coalition avenir Québec

Parti libéral du Québec

Parti québécois

Parti conservateur du Québec

Related promises

Convert 25% of aid to eligible SMEs into direct, non-repayable aid

Grant a temporary HSSF contribution holiday to tariff-hit businesses

Speed up the rollout of the Carrefour de l'eau

Support a Quebec City bid for an international exposition on water

Support the revitalization of Fleur-de-Lys and a football stadium on the former Colisée site

Develop a defence technology hub in the Quebec City region

Support the Port of Québec transformation projects

Gradually reduce corporate income tax from 11.5% to 4.7%

Reduce the corporate tax rate from 11.5% to 9.5%

Abolish the Fonds de développement économique

End general subsidies to foreign multinationals

Reduce the regulatory burden by 30%

Shield up to $35,000 of seniors' employment income

Simplify mining permit processes

Adopt a policy favouring Quebec wood

Roll out a francophone economic outreach strategy

Create an entrepreneurship access plan

Extend a 15% preference margin in public contracts

Abolish the lowest compliant bidder rule

Cut government payment delays to 30 days

Create a Mining Communities Development Fund

Boost the circular economy and fight the destruction of unsold goods

Revise tendering rules to encourage more competition

Involve contractors earlier in project design

Liberalize the distribution of Quebec craft alcohol

Abolish SAQ royalties on certain direct sales by producers

Reduce targeted subsidies and ease the tax burden on SMEs

Reduce business subsidies and tax credits by $20 billion over five years

Create a Secretariat for Government Efficiency and continuously review regulations

Eliminate more than 2,900 additional positions in government

Apply a "one added, two removed" regulatory rule

Create a government efficiency team

Speed up automation through artificial intelligence

Benchmark certain public services against private offerings

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