Pierre Fitzgibbon: “Innovation zones, a springboard for the Quebec economy” “We are a French-speaking province of 8.5 million people surrounded by other Canadian provinces and the United States, so we had to find our niche,” he says. “To be efficient it is preferable to choose sectors where you can stand out.

We therefore wanted to focus on these sectors and geographic areas with high added value,’ he adds. ‘It is important that our young people in Quebec and our future immigrants see these ZIs as areas where it becomes interesting to work’