On June 29, the Government of Quebec launched the province's
first maritime strategy. The strategy covers the 15-year period
from 2015 to 2030. The government is anticipating that, over that
period, public and private investments totalling $9 billion will
stimulate the creation of 30,000 direct jobs and significant growth
in imports and exports.
The strategy includes three five-year action plans. The first,
which covers the period from 2015 to 2020, was announced
concurrently with the strategy. It is accompanied by a $1.5 billion
financial framework and many of the measures it contains are
already set out in the Quebec Budget 2015-2016.
The strategy is underpinned by two core principles: (i) a planned,
integrated approach involving the various levels of government and
civil society, and (ii) a sustainable development perspective. To
define its priority initiatives, the government has adopted three
strategic directions: (i) sustainably develop the maritime
