Quebec has had the black cloud of separation hurting foreign investment (lowest per capita execpt for tiny PEI) and it has way too many provincial and municipal governments employees (almost twice as many govt employees as Ontario despite having about half Ontario's population) which are a very heavy financial burden.  The middle classes up are heavily taxes (the highest in Canada by far and one of the highest tax burdens in the western world) which is one of the major reasons Quebecois have the lowest disponible income in the country... hurting the economy because residents have no money left to purchase or spend on good/ services.  Despite all these very high taxes, the road infrastructure and public transit are adequate at best, in fact the roads are the worst in North America and poor versus even developing countries. What Quebec needs to do is reduce the duplication of services and overly generous social services that it cannot afford... and reduce the number of govt employees!