Martin Patriquin is a Quebec correspondent for The Logic, covering the province’s innovation economy and the transformation of its legacy businesses, and writing The Logic’s biweekly Quebec Ink column. He was previously Quebec bureau chief for Maclean’s. A National Magazine Award winner, he has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Walrus, Vice, BuzzFeed and The Globe and Mail, and is a regular panelist on CBC’s Power & Politics.
Quebec officials thought it would take until 2036 to close a yawning productivity gap between itself and Ontario. Now the province reckons it can do it by 2027.
Quebec will throw huge sums at a plan to improve productivity and prosperity in the province. A long history of bungled state interventions suggests it might do more harm than good.
