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