Provincial Employment Potential Information

The following table identifies employment conditions within Québec.

Table on the employment potential for Retail Trade Supervisors in Capitale-Nationale Region as well as in the rest of the Québec.

Location	Employment Potential	Release Date
Abitibi-Témiscamingue Region		2012-10-09
Bas-Saint-Laurent Region		2012-10-15
Capitale-Nationale Region		2012-10-15
Centre-du-Québec Region		2012-11-06
Chaudière-Appalaches Region		2012-11-07
Côte-Nord Region		2012-12-06
Estrie Region		2013-02-01
Gaspésie -- Îles-de-la-Madeleine Region		2013-01-17
Lanaudière Region		2013-01-21
Laurentides Region		2012-11-07
Laval Region		2012-02-28
Mauricie Region		2012-11-30
Montérégie Region		2012-10-22
Montréal Region		2012-11-21
Nord-du-Québec Region	N/A	N/A
Outaouais Region		2012-10-11
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean Region		2012-11-07

Additional Provincial Prospects

Visit the Provincial Job Futures for information on the current trends and the future outlook for occupations in this province or territory. This Web site is a joint effort of the federal, provincial and territorial governments. You can view a report specific to this occupation on: Provincial Job Futures - (Employment Prospects section) Web Site.

Labour Market Bulletins

An analysis of the local labour market and an assessment of local employment-related events.

• April 2013 | (PDF, 563KB)
• March 2013 | (PDF, 225 KB)
• February 2013 | (PDF, 225 KB)
• January 2013 | (PDF, 545 KB)
• Annual Edition 2012 | (PDF, 521 KB, 10 pages)

Provincial / Territorial Labour Market News

Week of May 06 – May 10, 2013

• The Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM) will build a new pavilion that will be inaugurated in 2017. This project will require an investment estimated at more than $100M. (available in French only)
• Daycare service La Casa Tropical/Maison des Enfants was built in Saint-Denis-de-Brompton thanks to an $800,000 investment. Eight employees have been hired.
• 14 people laid off at Canadian Museum of Civilization (available in French only)
• The sum of $90.5M will be invested into the Mauricie region's roads between 2013 and 2015, leading to the creation or retention of 692 jobs (available in French only)
• Construction work on a new $20M industrial and commercial condo project, Icondo, has recently begun on the Lac Mirabel site in Mirabel. The first tenant companies will arrive in the summer of 2013. (available in French only)
• The Target store chain will be undergoing a hiring period in the south of the Laurentians during the next few weeks in Blainville for its Boisbriand, Saint-Eustache and Saint-Jérôme locations, with the opening scheduled for fall 2013 (available in French only)

Week of Apr 29 – May 03, 2013

• The opening of an Apple store in the Quartier DIX30 in Brossard leads to the creation of 70 jobs (available in French only)
• Target is hiring in May in Longueuil and Brossard to fill close to 100 positions for its three new stores (available in French only)
• The Target store chain is currently in a hiring period for its future establishment in the Joliette region with an opening scheduled for fall 2013 (available in French only)
• Supermarket IGA of the Brompton borough in Sherbrooke has just invested $6M to expand. Thus, 25 new jobs were added to the 50 existing ones. (available in French only)
• The Target chain, which will open a store in Saint-Georges (Beauce) in the fall, organizes two employment fairs at hotel le Georgesville (available in French only)
• Alimentation Coop has invested $10M in its four Rimouski businesses (available in French only)
• Immeubles Genesee, an independent real estate brokerage agency located in the LaSalle borough, is shutting down. Sixty-some people worked for this company. (available in French only)

Week of Apr 22 – Apr 26, 2013

• Citing profitability problems, car dealership Volvo du Fjord in Chicoutimi will lay off its nearly dozen employees (available in French only)
• Volvo St-Hyacinthe will close its doors next June 30th, which will lead to the layoff of nearly a dozen people (available in French only)
• Creative recreation goods retailer DeSerres invests $1.5M in its Drummondville store, which will open this fall (available in French only)

Week of Apr 15 – Apr 19, 2013

• The Maxi supermarket located in the Galeries Laurentides in Saint-Jérôme will move into the space formerly occupied by Zellers in the fall of 2013 after spending over $2M on renovations. The new location offers double the square footage. (available in French only)
• The new IGA Crevier grocery store in Terrebonne opened on April 17. The store required a $10M investment; 50 new jobs will be added to the 70 existing ones. (available in French only)