The government agency’s message contradicts Premier François Legault’s claim that he wants to attract high-paying jobs to the province.
Investissement Québec has been touting the comparatively low salaries paid in the province as a means of luring battery-sector investors here, according to internal documents obtained by the Parti Québécois.
That message is in stark contrast to the repeated assertion by Premier François Legault that he wants to attract high-paying jobs to the province.
Investissement Québec documents obtained by the Parti Québécois through Access to Information requests show that Quebec’s labour costs are 14 per cent cheaper than the average salaries paid on the eastern coast of the United States.
PQ MNA Pascal Paradis said the Legault government is selling Quebec as “cheap labour.”