From Opportunity Identification to Provincial Economic Impact
The Road to Prosperity: The 2026-2028 OLMCQ Collaborative Economic Development Roadmap is built upon a clear and disciplined operating logic: It recognizes that meaningful economic transformation rarely occurs through isolated projects, disconnected interventions, or fragmented initiatives.
Lasting economic gains increasingly depend upon the ability to organize and coordinate existing assets, institutions, workforce systems, enterprises, technologies, infrastructure, and investment into collaborative economic operating environments capable of generating measurable outcomes at scale.
At the centre of this framework is the concept of the Collaborative Economic Development Venture. A Venture is not simply a project, a funding stream, or a short-term initiative. It is a structured Public, Private, and Civil Society Partnership designed to organize around one or more identifiable economic development opportunities and build the capacity required to successfully capitalize on them over time.
Workforce Development & Labour Market Participation
This Venture focuses on improving workforce participation, labour-market coordination, education-to-employment pathways, employer engagement, workforce matching, workforce readiness, labour-market intelligence, and regional labour-market activation across Quebec.
Through the Employment Assistance Services Capacity Development Initiative (EASCDI), the Provincial Talent Placement Platform, AI-enabled labour-market matching, workforce analytics, and coordinated partnerships between employers and workforce developers, the Venture seeks to strengthen connections among job seekers, talent developers, employers, workforce organizations, educational institutions, and economic opportunity across Quebec.
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The Venture is designed as a scalable, collaborative workforce-participation capacity that can organize fragmented labour-market assets into a more coordinated and economically productive operating model. It supports soon-to-be graduates, unemployed, underemployed, and structurally disadvantaged English-speaking Quebecers by improving access to employment pathways, workforce supports, employer networks, training opportunities, and long-term economic participation. At the same time, it helps employers, particularly SMEs, improve recruitment, workforce planning, retention, and productivity through stronger labour market coordination and greater access to talent.
The Venture also places strong emphasis on strengthening education-to-employment pathways by improving collaboration among employers, educational institutions, workforce organizations, and community partners. Through work-integrated learning, AI-assisted workforce navigation, labour- market intelligence, and coordinated placement activity, the Venture seeks to accomplish the following:
Improve workforce readiness
Reduce hiring friction
Strengthen workforce matching
Increase long-term labour-market participation across Quebec
Graduate Entrepreneurship & Startup Development
This Venture recognizes that Quebec already possesses many of the assets required to support entrepreneurship successfully, including educational institutions, mentorship networks, incubators, accelerators, financing programs, and entrepreneurial support organizations. The challenge is that these assets often remain in fragmented ways, making entrepreneurial pathways difficult to navigate and scale.
The Venture focuses, therefore, on helping graduates transform creativity, technical skills, bilingual capacity, innovation, and entrepreneurial ambition into sustainable economic activity, enterprise creation, revenue generation, and long-term economic participation. It functions as a coordinated entrepreneurial pathway, leveraging the several core functions.
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The following core functions are leveraged within this Venture:
Entrepreneurial navigation
Mentorship coordination
Enterprise incubation
Financing readiness
Business model development
Commercialization support
Market access
AI-enabled entrepreneurial tools
Digital platform participation
Performance management
The Venture also seeks to strengthen regional entrepreneurship ecosystems by connecting graduates, entrepreneurs, investors, educational institutions, community organizations, and enterprises at the regional level.
Encore Seniors Cooperative
This Venture focuses on mobilizing underutilized senior human capital to strengthen workforce participation, mentorship, entrepreneurship, consulting, advisory services, productivity, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and regional economic participation across Quebec.
It seeks to reposition senior experience, expertise, leadership capacity, and bilingual capability as active economic assets that support workforce renewal, enterprise growth, mentorship, and organizational performance.
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The Venture recognizes that many seniors continue to possess significant professional expertise, operational judgment, sector knowledge, entrepreneurial potential, and mentorship capacity, yet often lack structured pathways through which to remain economically active.
The Encore Seniors Cooperative, therefore, creates coordinated participation pathways through which seniors can contribute to economic development through flexible work, advisory services, consulting, governance participation, mentorship, entrepreneurship, training, and intergenerational knowledge transfer. Core Venture functions include the following:
Skills mapping
Opportunity matching
Workforce coordination
Mentorship pathways
Entrepreneurship support
Consulting marketplaces
Digital and AI-readiness training
Regional engagement
The Venture also supports SMEs, entrepreneurs, workforce organizations, and community institutions by improving access to experienced talent and operational expertise.
Smart_Farm
This Venture focuses on improving agricultural profitability, productivity, workforce deployment, operational coordination, equipment utilization, succession planning, administrative efficiency, and long-term farm sustainability through collaborative coordination and Al-enabled operational intelligence.
The Venture seeks to organize labour, equipment, administrative support, operational planning, workforce coordination, and productivity-enhancing practices into a more cohesive agricultural operating environment that strengthens profitability, resilience, and long-term sustainability across Quebec’s agricultural economy.
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The Venture places particular emphasis on supporting smaller and medium-sized farms that often lack the scale to independently access advanced technologies, workforce coordination systems, shared equipment environments, and productivity-enhancing infrastructure. Through collaborative coordination, participating farms can improve labour deployment, reduce administrative burden, strengthen access to seasonal and skilled labour, optimize equipment usage, improve operational planning, and strengthen succession pathways for the next generation of producers. Core Venture functions include the following:
Workforce coordination
Equipment-sharing systems
Administrative automation
Operational intelligence
Logistics support
Succession planning
Agricultural data and analytics
Training
Regional coordination
The Venture also seeks to strengthen agricultural resilience and long-term competitiveness by improving the organization, coordination, and deployment of agricultural resources across participating farms and regions.
Agri_Value Recovery & Biotransformation
This Venture seeks to transform agricultural and food residuals into productive economic assets through coordinated recovery, aggregation, logistics, redistribution, processing, bioenergy production, circular-economy activity, and value-added transformation. It focuses on converting underutilized agricultural and food materials into new enterprise activity, logistics coordination, environmental sustainability, regional economic participation, and circular-economy development across Quebec’s agri-food economy.
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The Venture recognizes that substantial economic value already exists within agricultural and food waste streams, but that these resources often remain fragmented, dispersed, and insufficiently coordinated. The Venture therefore creates collaborative operating environments that aggregate supply, coordinate logistics, support processing infrastructure, enable redistribution, connect materials to markets, and create new economic pathways linked to bioenergy, food recovery, secondary processing, composting, biomass, and resource transformation.
The Venture’s work will be especially important for small and medium-sized farms, food processors, distributors, recovery operators, aggregators, and regional logistics enterprises. These often face the greatest barriers to participating effectively in coordinated recovery and value-transformation activities. Many lack the scale, infrastructure, logistics capacity, processing volume, market access, technology, and operational coordination required to independently capture economic value from recoverable materials.
The Venture will create opportunities for these enterprises to participate within a shared collaborative operating environment that improves access to aggregation systems, logistics coordination, processing pathways, market connections, redistribution networks, AI-enabled operational intelligence, and shared infrastructure. In doing so, the Venture can help smaller and medium-sized enterprises reduce disposal costs, improve resource utilization, generate new revenue streams, strengthen operational efficiency, increase participation in emerging circular-economy markets, and improve long-term economic sustainability within Quebec’s evolving agri-food economy. Core functions include the following:
Waste-stream mapping
Aggregation and collection coordination
Logistics optimization
Processing coordination
Market activation
Redistribution systems
Bioenergy support
AI-enabled coordination tools
Performance intelligence
The Venture also seeks to create new enterprises, improve resource utilization, strengthen regional value chains, reduce disposal costs, and improve environmental sustainability while simultaneously strengthening the economic performance of Quebec’s agri-food economy.
Smart_Tourism
This Venture focuses on coordinated tourism activation, integrated visitor journeys, Al-enabled tourism engagement, transportation coordination, regional storytelling, tourism data infrastructure, corridor-scale tourism development, and SME participation in tourism. It seeks to transform fragmented tourism activity into a coordinated tourism activation model that generates stronger visitor engagement, increased spending, longer stays, improved regional participation, and more sustainable tourism growth across Quebec.
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Tourism is one of Quebec’s most important economic sectors and a major source of employment, entrepreneurship, regional economic activity, cultural promotion, and SME development across the province. Thousands of small and medium-sized tourism businesses, family enterprises, cultural organizations, hospitality operators, restaurants, attractions, guides, artisans, festivals, transportation operators, outfitters, and community-based social enterprises depend directly on tourism activity for their economic sustainability and long-term viability.
Yet many of these organizations continue to face significant barriers to visibility, digital readiness, market access, seasonal instability, fragmented promotion, transportation coordination, workforce shortages, and limited capacity to participate effectively in increasingly competitive, digitally driven tourism markets. The Venture places particular emphasis on strengthening the capacity of smaller and community-based tourism enterprises to participate more effectively in coordinated visitor economies that generate stronger, more broadly distributed economic value across Quebec.
The Venture integrates tourism operators, transportation systems, accommodations, attractions, cultural experiences, Indigenous tourism assets, municipalities, regional tourism organizations, workforce partners, and Al-enabled visitor engagement tools into a single collaborative tourism Venture. Particular emphasis is placed on integrated visitor journeys, tourism corridor development, transportation alignment, multilingual visitor engagement, tourism analytics, SME readiness, and coordinated regional activation.
The Venture also seeks to help smaller tourism enterprises and social economy actors improve market visibility, strengthen digital participation, increase booking and conversion opportunities, improve tourism packaging and itinerary participation, strengthen tourism workforce readiness, and reduce the economic disadvantages associated with operating independently in fragmented regional tourism environments. Through coordinated tourism activation, shared digital infrastructure, Al-enabled engagement tools, integrated itineraries, and regional collaboration, smaller operators can gain access to larger visitor flows, stronger tourism markets, and more sustainable participation within Quebec’s evolving tourism economy.
Through integrated itineraries, transportation coordination, regional tourism sequencing, visitor analytics, and corridor-scale activation, the Venture seeks to convert concentrated visitor flows into distributed regional economic value across multiple communities and tourism environments.
Smart_Culture
This Venture focuses on increasing artist income, strengthening cultural entrepreneurship, expanding digital commercialization, improving audience engagement, integrating cultural tourism, strengthening production and supply coordination, and improving long-term participation within Quebec’s cultural and creative economy. It seeks to transform fragmented cultural activity into a coordinated cultural market and supply environment capable of generating stronger economic outcomes for artists, cultural producers, cultural enterprises, and regional cultural economies.
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The Venture integrates Al-enabled cultural marketplaces, e-commerce functionality, digital audience engagement, tourism integration, production support, logistics coordination, funding navigation, supplier intelligence, and support for cultural entrepreneurship within a single collaborative operating environment. The objective is not merely to increase visibility for artists and cultural producers, but to improve their ability to generate sustainable income, reduce production costs, strengthen market access, and participate more effectively in Quebec’s evolving cultural economy. Core Venture functions include the following:
Al-assisted marketing and audience development
Production and supplier intelligence
Bilingual digital marketplaces
Grant and financing navigation
Cultural tourism integration
Onboarding and adoption support
Logistics coordination
Performance analytics
The Venture also strengthens regional tourism participation, local storytelling, creative-sector entrepreneurship, and cultural enterprise development across Quebec.
Smart_Care
This Venture seeks to improve access to care, workforce deployment, care coordination, Al- enabled navigation, service matching, care enterprise development, and care-sector innovation across Quebec’s evolving care economy. It combines care coordination, workforce participation, enterprise development, technological innovation, and commercialization within a single collaborative operating model that improves care access while supporting workforce participation, productivity growth, enterprise incubation, and long-term care-sector resilience.
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The Venture recognizes that Quebec’s care economy already contains many of the institutional, workforce, technological, and community assets required for stronger performance, but that these assets often remain fragmented and insufficiently coordinated. The Venture creates coordinated pathways through which users, providers, workforce organizations, innovators, entrepreneurs, public institutions, and community organizations can participate in a single integrated Smart Care environment. Core functions include the following:
Care navigation and coordination
Enterprise incubation
Al-enabled service matching
Financing and commercialization support
Workforce deployment
Pilot and validation environments
Provider-network development
Workforce analytics
Care-sector workforce pathways
Performance learning
The Venture also seeks to incubate and scale Smart Care enterprises that improve care access, reduce service fragmentation, strengthen workforce participation, and support long-term economic and social resilience across Quebec’s care economy.
Green_build
This Venture focuses on improving access to financing, accelerating sustainable housing development, strengthening project activation, improving stakeholder coordination, and increasing long-term investment in green housing and sustainable construction across Quebec. It seeks to organize financing pathways, development expertise, institutional coordination, sustainability investments, project acceleration, and housing development activity into a more coordinated and productive housing development environment.
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The Venture recognizes that substantial financing capacity, housing demand, institutional infrastructure, sustainability programs, and development expertise already exist across Quebec’s housing and construction sectors. However, financing pathways, regulatory coordination, project development, and stakeholder alignment are fragmented and difficult to navigate. The Venture serves as a collaborative financing and project-activation capability designed to reduce friction, accelerate project advancement, improve access to financing, and strengthen green housing development across multiple regions and communities. Core functions include the following:
Financing and financing intelligence gathering and navigation
Project acceleration
Project advisory support
Sustainability alignment
Stakeholder coordination
Housing analytics
Administrative simplification
Performance management
The Venture also seeks to strengthen workforce participation, construction-sector activity, regional economic development, and long-term housing accessibility through coordinated investment activation and sustainable development.
Next_Gen: RT Drones & Electric Aviation
This Venture seeks to enhance regional connectivity, logistics coordination, aviation operations, workforce participation, health-care logistics, infrastructure utilization, transportation responsiveness, and regional economic participation across remote and underserved regions of Quebec. Through coordinated drone logistics, electric aviation systems, infrastructure operations, workforce development, logistics intelligence, and digital coordination environments, the Venture aims to strengthen regional mobility resilience, supply chain continuity, public service delivery, and long-term regional economic participation.
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The Venture integrates drone-delivery systems, electric-aviation connectivity, regional logistics hubs, transportation coordination, digital routing systems, infrastructure operations, workforce development, aviation training, and logistics analytics into a single collaborative regional mobility architecture. It recognizes that transportation and logistics are no longer simply operational functions, but increasingly foundational economic coordination capabilities that shape regional participation, health-care responsiveness, enterprise development, workforce mobility, and long-term regional resilience. Core Venture functions include the following:
Drone logistics coordination
Electric aviation operations
Infrastructure management
Logistics intelligence
Regional operating support
Workforce participation
Technical training
Performance measurement
The Venture also seeks to reduce transportation inefficiencies, improve logistics responsiveness, strengthen infrastructure utilization, support health care and emergency logistics, and improve the ability of remote and underserved communities to participate more fully in Quebec’s broader economy.