Le rapport examine l’effet des petites entreprises sur l’économie et sur l’emploi dans les quatre provinces de l’Ouest canadien. De plus, il constitue une mise à jour d’un précédent rapport publié en 1999.

The report examines the importance of small business to the economies and employment of Canada’s four western provinces, and is an update of an earlier report, released in 1999.

This study by the Western Centre for Economic Research (WCER) examines small business exports to US and other international markets based on a 2007 survey of 387 firms with less than 100 employees. Most firms were in the manufacturing sector, supplemented by a few firms in professional and...