Le modèle québécois : origines, définition, fondements et adaptation au nouveau contexte économique et social

• Main Author: Pierre-Paul Proulx
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association d'Economie Politique 2002-10-01
• Series: Interventions Économiques pour une Alternative Sociale
• Subjects: Quebec; economy; public; model; dialogue; solidarity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/1022
• ISSN: 0715-3570; 1710-7377

From several papers on the Quebecois model and Quebec Inc ., the article shows that these terms take several meanings according to the authors. So, for some, they translate a corporatist, a real network or an economic nationalism; for others, they are the expression of the french presence in North America or another model of emancipation of people and french-speaking companies. The model of development appears from big socioeconomic actors of these last sixty years and its characteristics allow to seize the notion of general interest as being the expression of a community of persons and not of a market. More than a concept which heads a class of business, Quebec Inc. would be a real project of society and the expression of a model of development based on a particular alliance between the public and private economic powers the objective of which was and continuous to be the pursuit of a policy of growth by the grip in hand of the economic control levers of Quebec. Finally, it is nothing else than a "natural" desire of dialogue in a world where the grouping of the forces and the inteligences is imperative itself. But for a renewal of the model, a division of objectives on behalf of the implied actors turns out important as well as a social "recapitalisation". The article ends by underlining the importance of the dialogue and the solidarity as the authorized capital which a new quebecois model in a current context can not save it.