{"id":4073,"date":"2026-05-28T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:54:06","slug":"productivity-and-prosperity-in-quebec-overview-2026-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/productivity-and-prosperity-in-quebec-overview-2026-edition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity and Prosperity in Quebec \u2013 Overview 2026 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Montreal, May 28, 2026<\/strong> \u2013 Seventeen years after the first edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/PP-2026-01_ANG.pdf\"><em>Productivity and Prosperity in Quebec \u2013 Overview<\/em><\/a>, the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity \u2013 Walter J. Somers Foundation (CPP) at HEC Montr\u00e9al concludes that Quebec remains trapped in a flawed economic development model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite mounting warning signs, the Quebec government has stubbornly continued to pursue a strategy whose results did not justify either its scope or its cost,\u201d summarizes Robert Gagn\u00e9, director of the CPP and co-author of the study. Billions of dollars in public funds have thus been poured into fruitless measures, and the province has never managed to foster a critical mass of companies competitive enough to establish themselves in foreign markets. And that is precisely where the crux of the matter lies: without a pool of productive and innovative companies to support sustainable export growth, the growth of the Quebec economy remains largely dependent on domestic demand, which jeopardizes the province\u2019s economic prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Communique_PP-2026-01_ANG.pdf\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read press release<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-room","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}