Yes. It's tough to compare companies in Canadian provinces with one another or with those in the United States. A few years back, a study showed that 80% of businesses in Quebec were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 50 employees, whereas in Ontario, 50% of businesses were divisions of larger companies. Businesses like those have significantly greater investment capacity.
The market in the United States is 10 times the size of Canada's, so businesses in the U.S. can spread their costs over a larger number of products, something businesses in Quebec can't do. Small and medium-size businesses in Quebec aren't able to be as competitive. What's more, since they have lower margins, it is much harder for them to invest and catch up productivity-wise. That partly explains the productivity gap between businesses in Quebec and those in Ontario or those in the United States.