sectors with future potential

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A Blueprint for Change: Response to the Report of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector [ Response to the Report of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector ]

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16. Believes that regional industrial strategies must be based on an integrated approach, including an employment, training, and education component, aimed at promoting growth sectors capable of creating sustainable local and regional jobs, especially for young people, e.g. in innovative SMEs, as part of the programme for the competitiveness of enterprises and SMEs (COSME); highlights the special role cities play in developing regional strategies for industrial areas; believes in this framework that cities are central to achieving smart growth; underlines, therefore, the fact that, in particular ...[+++], cities with an old industrialised base offer an enormous potential, which the EU should explore to the full; calls on the Commission to engage in closer dialogue with the cities concerned with a view to raising the profile of cities as direct partners of the EU;

Under these circumstances, it is clearly crucial for Quebec—and it also applies to the very promising services sector—to have its own thoughts on the issue and to consider these situations based on its own problems.

It is clear that a European framework needs to be established in this area of significant future potential.

That way, the minister may designate sectors and regions which, according to him or her, are most likely to propel Quebec onto the national and international scene.