Talk:Economy of Quebec

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The data are four years old and portray Québec's economy more positively than recent facts permit.

This article doesn't seem to be written neutrally. While Quebec has a strong economy, this article seems to mention mostly positive points without analysis, as if it were a marketing pamphlet. More comparison to the economies of other Canadian provinces and the US would be useful. A reader of this article might wonder how the economy of Quebec is affected by the possibility of separation, if this can be written in a balanced way.

Comparison with other provinces of Canada, US states, and other countries are welcomed if you have numbers. True, there is no analysis, which cannot be written neutrally anyway. The figures given are indeed showing mostly the positive aspects of Quebec's economy. People are free to write on the weak points of Quebec's economy, which are often weak points of Canada's economy (such as the dependency on the US market for exports, the value of the Canadian dollar, the size of the interior market, the productivity not as high as it could be etc.).

As for the impact of Canada's political instability on its economy (and more specifically that of Quebec), well that's a pretty interesting topic, but there simply is no way to write anything "neutral" on it. The only figures we have I guess are that of the fluctuations in the value of the Canadian dollar during the 1980 and 1995 referendum campaigns. There's hardly anymore material than this, the rest being totally biased because the only studies we have were conceived to either scare Quebecers with a doomsday scenario or reassure them by showing them the most positive prospects. -- Mathieugp 16:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)