Stable. Secure.
Quebec, one of the eastern Canadian provinces, has an economy firmly entrenched in the natural resources sector which includes a long history of mining and mineral processing.
Quebec is consistently a top-ranked jurisdiction in the Fraser Institute's annual ranking of mining friendly jurisdictions.
Quebec provides E-Power with the following advantages for mining and mineral exploration investment:
- Politically stable nationally and provincially
- Bilingual French and English
- Provides a secure environment for work
- Surety of land title for mineral exploration and mining purposes
- Extremely well-developed mining and exploration data and administration systems
- North American location providing natural resource supply base for emerging North American battery and electric vehicle market industries
- Leading manufacturer and supplier of hydroelectric energy
- Provincial government strongly supportive of electric vehicle industry development including battery strategy supporting up to $7bn of investments, grants and subsidies
- Provincial government historically leading in infrastructure development to support natural resource sector, continuing with Plan Nord extending infrastructure into Quebec north
- Refundable credit of up to 35% applied to mineral exploration expenditures in the province
