Ontario-Quebec Global International Trade

According to a survey made by L'Institut de la Statistique du Québec", in 2007, 55,6% of the Small and Medium Size Businesses in Quebec with 20 to 499 employees were involved in international activities. From this study and from the queries made on www.icriq.com and based on Ontario and Quebec GNP's, we'd draw the follwing picture:


International Activities 
About 12 000 companies between 20 and 499 employees are trading outside their province
About 9 900 companies involved in international activities are from the manufacturing  
About 5 400 companies involved in international activities were from the service industries.
About 4 600 companies were contracting with companies outside their province
About 1 500 companies are making direct Investment outside their province


Trading products 
About 10 300 companies are exporting directly to clients outside their province
About 3 700 companies are using distributors outside their province


Investment 
About 1 500 companies are investing outside their province
About 970 companies are investing in real estate outside their province
About 815 companies are involved in takeover outside their province
About 375 companies made joint ventures outside their province



Contracts 

Sub-Contracting
About 4 665 companies are involved as sub contracting to companies outside their province;
About 2 100 companies  are making subcontracting agreements for companies outside their province.


Licensing
About 780 companies are acquiring licenses outside their province
About 1 400 companies are selling licenses outside their province



Strategic Alliances
About 1 200 companies are making strategic alliances with a partner established outside their province
About 1 020 companies are making strategic alliances on markets outside their province

The Canadian environmental market

There would be over 6 600 private companies directly involved in environmental products and services in Canada;

There would be a total of 105 00 establishments (private and public) who have at least one employee involved in environmental tasks.

The environmental industry would have a total of 503 000 jobs in Canada.

About the number of Environmental companies in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia

Quebec
In the Province of Quebec, there is 1600 businesses and more than 34 000 jobs related to green technologies and environmental companies with an average growth of  41.4% in the past 5 years.
Investments in this field past from 16,8 M$  in 2006 to 59,4 M$ in 2007. www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?id=84&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1494&tx_ttnews[currentCatUid]=68&tx_ttnews[backPid]=4563&no_cache=1

Ontario
2,467 environmental companies employs more than 62 000 jobs are related to Environment www.2ontario.com/industry/environment.asp

Alberta 
Almost 1,330 companies, employing 26,000 Albertans and generating more than $3.5 billion in revenues. www.albertacanada.com/industries/1160.html

British Columbia
Over 1,300 companies with revenues close to $2 billion. The main components of the sector are environmental construction, recycling, and solid and hazardous waste management, consulting services, water and wastewater goods and services, renewable energy, air pollution and noise control, analytical services, and green building and sustainable urban planning.
www.bceia.com/documents/overview_on_BCs_environment_industry.pdf