Government Grants for Businesses in Québec
From training programs to research initiatives, discover the diverse range of activities in Quebec that benefit from various forms of support.
In Quebec, as across Canada, there are numerous grants and financing options available to help foster the growth of communities and organizations. This diverse funding landscape draws from both federal and provincial sources, offering specific opportunities tailored to each province, from British Columbia to Quebec. Whether you're looking to develop a project, launch an initiative, or expand a program, these resources are designed to support your endeavors and contribute to regional development.

Novoclimat — Construction professionals — Small Multiple-Unit Buildings
- No Condition
- Construction
- Real estate and rental and leasing

AgroPerformance – Stream 2 : Support for specific agricultural sectors in adopting priority equipment
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Aboriginal Aquatic Resource And Oceans Management (AAROM) Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Canada Cultural Investment Fund - Endowment Incentives
- From $5,000 to $1,500,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Support for music and variety companies — Component 2: Support for management activities and Component 3: Para-industrial sector - Project support
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Competitiveness and Environment Program - Component 1
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Renewable Natural Gas Production Support Program — Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities

Financial Assistance Program for the Promotion of French – Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Collaborative Industrial Research and Support to Innovative Entrepreneurship — Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Financial Assistance Program for the Promotion of French – stream 2
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

MTRIC — PARTENAR-IA — Industry
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

Regional defence investment initiative (RDII) – Quebec
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Financial support for the integration of foreign-trained employees
- Up to 70% of project cost
- All industries

Regions and Rurality Fund — convenience stores
- From $10,000 to $150,000
- Up to 85% of project cost
- Retail trade

Capitale-Innovation
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance

Visées program — Training
- Maximum amount : 8,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

REGI — Jobs and Growth Fund — CED (QC) — For profit
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)

Acting to support growth
- Maximum amount : 270,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

ESSOR – Component 3: Support for investment projects to reduce environmental footprint
- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- All industries

Greater Montreal Climate Fund — 2025-2026 Call for projects
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program Component 3 — Food quality and safety management
- From $7,500 to $150,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Capitale-Commerce
- From $5,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

MAPAQ — Ministerial initiative Proximity — Component 2
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

MAPAQ — Prime-Vert — Component 2
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Private sector support program for the deployment of public fast charging stations
- Maximum amount : 2,500,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Accommodation and food services
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Quebec businesses can access a variety of grants and funding to support their growth and innovative projects. Specific programs exist for initiatives ranging from energy efficiency to ecological transition, and sustainable development. Companies can also benefit from specialized advice and mentorship services to maximize their chances of success in grant applications. Online resources, detailed guides, and training workshops are available to assist them throughout the process.

CQRDA — INNOV-R SME
- Maximum amount : 450,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Tax Credit for an On-the-Job Training Period – Individuals
- No Condition
- All industries

Collaborative Industrial Research and Support to Innovative Entrepreneurship — Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

REGI — Business Scale-up and Productivity — CED (QC) — Not-for-profit
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Quebec
- From $100,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Call for innovation projects in artificial intelligence and quantum technologies – collaborative industrial research and support for entrepreneurship
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

Social Economy Support Fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Wood Innovation Program — Component 2
- From $200,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Wood Innovation Program - component 1
- From $200,000 to $2,500,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

SEAO electronic tendering system
- No Condition
- All industries

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Subcomponent 4.2 - Regional, sectoral and environmental challenges facing slaughterhouses and cheese dairies
- From $7,500 to $150,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

FAQDD — Écoemballage+ Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services

PADAAR — Measure 4051 – Innovation and testing
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Pilot or capital projects in the field
- From $100,000 to $300,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Awareness and promotion projects
- From $10,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Support program for economic development projects (PAPDE) — Component 2 : Support for the development of strategic sectors and regions
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Anti-Racism Action Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MT Lab — Project financing program — Component 1: Strategic support
- From $5,000 to $12,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

- Minimum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Financial assistance for infrastructure projects supporting the mining sector (ENIAM)
- From $100,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

DEL — Expertise Financing Grant
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Component 1
- From $5,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

PADAAR — Measure 4074 – Relief group
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MT Lab — Project Financing Program — Component 2
- Maximum amount : 90,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Efficient Solutions Program — Small Business Component
- Minimum amount : 500 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- All industries
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Music management and publishing assistance
- Maximum amount : 120,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement for tourism 2022-2025 – Digital development of a company
- From $5,000 to $25,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Ecocamionnage Program — Technology acquisition component
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing

PME MTL — Industrial and sustainable development investment fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

SODEC — Support for book and publishing companies – Component 1
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Information and cultural industries

Ecocamionnage Program — Acquisition of used heavy vehicles component
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing

Doing business in French
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Ambition-Compétences — Training for resilience and competitiveness in employment
- Up to 85% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Promotional assistance for music and entertainment companies
- Maximum amount : 400,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Innovation Program — Stream 1 – Support for innovation projects
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Entrepreneurial grant
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance

MAPAQ — Prime-Vert — Component 1
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Quebec City — Major projects
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance

Development of E-Business Tax Credit Integrating Artificial Intelligence (CDAEIA)
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Aid measure for the decarbonization of Quebec's industrial sector (MADI)
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

Ecocamionnage Program — Collaborative shared electric delivery project
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Subcomponent 4.1 - Competitiveness of slaughterhouses and cheese dairies
- From $7,500 to $150,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Le Fonds d’initiatives locales (FIL) Village
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Official Languages Support Programs
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Support for innovation projects
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Canada Book Fund Publishers Business Development — Business Planning
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Theatrical documentary program
- From $400,000 to $500,000
- Up to 49% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Extend the employment periods of your staff — Seasonal employment extension component
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Tax credit for an on-the-job training period
- Up to 32% of project cost
- All industries
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- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

SynergiQc program for biopharmaceutical research
- From $500,000 to $7,500,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

InnovEnSol Program
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services
- Public administration

Green Strategy Funding
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- All industries

Canada Book Fund Publishing Support
- Maximum amount : 850,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Financial assistance for businesses located in areas affected by major infrastructure projects
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 5% of project cost
- All industries

Laurentides Tourism — Regional Partnership and Digital Transformation Agreement in Tourism (EPRTNT) – Digital development of a company
- From $10,000 to $95,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Regions and Rurality Fund (RRF) - Component 1 - Support for regional outreach
- From $100,000 to $3,000,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Financial support program for government initiatives in community and volunteer action
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Support for commercial arteries — Component 1 - Support for urban revitalization projects
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 65% of project cost
- All industries

PME MTL — Call for projects : Innovation
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Call for projects in social innovation
- Maximum amount : 800,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Water reduction program for paper mills
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

EPRTNT — Studies and consulting services
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

FESTQ - Student Funds 1 and 2
- Up to 90% of project cost
- All industries

Évolution-Compétences -Partnership for training and innovation
- Maximum amount : 50 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services

FTQ — Bioenergy
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Zú program — Incubation
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Social and Community Initiatives Support Program (SCISP) – Social Initiatives Component
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Trade Disruption Customer Support program
- No Condition
- All industries

Circular Economy Fund
- From $250,000 to $2,000,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Innovation Program — Stream 1 – Support for mobilising projects
- From $4,000,000 to $10
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

ÉcoPerformance — Energy management stream
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities

Indigenous Languages Program - Indigenous Languages Component - First Nations Languages Funding Model
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

CRIBIQ — PARTENAR-IA — Industry
- Maximum amount : 350,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)