Mr. François Vermette at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 26th, 2015. See this statement in context.

February 26th, 2015 / 4:20 p.m.

Director of Development, Social Economy Working Group

I don't know the figures for Canada. Perhaps Mr. LePage has them.

In Quebec, we often talk about 8% of GDP, but of course that includes the giants. Mouvement Desjardins and La Coop fédérée, for example, are very large businesses that skew the data. Statistics of this sort are a problem for us right now. They are very hard to get. This is not the case so much on the cooperative side, because it is fairly well defined, but statistics for non-profit organizations are much harder to get.

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