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Aboriginal Business Financing Program - Private Project
Native Commercial Credit Corporation
Get a non-refundable contribution of up to $99,999 for business start-up or expansion, marketing, project management, professional advisory services, and development of a business plan, marketing plan or feasibility studies.
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Aboriginal Business Financing Program — Community project
Native Commercial Credit Corporation
Get a non-refundable contribution of up to $1 million for businesses owned by a First Nation, the Native Alliance of Quebec, or by one of their members. Funds can be used for business start-up or expansion, marketing, project management, professional advisory services, and development of a business plan, marketing plan or feasibility studies.
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Accélérateur d'opportunités - Soutien à la productivité (in French only)
Ville de Laval
Get support and a grant of up to $125,000 for your Laval company's digital transformation project.
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AgriCompetitiveness Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
National associations and Indigenous groups can apply for up to $5 million over 5 years to cover 70% of the costs of activities that help the agricultural sector to leverage, coordinate and build on existing capacity; enhance safety; adapt to changing commercial and regulatory environments; seize new opportunities; share best practices; and provide mentorship opportunities.
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CED Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
If your SME or non-profit is working on a project to become more environmentally friendly, improve productivity, strengthen commercialization or integrate with regional and global supply chains, you could get a contribution to help with some of the costs.
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Canada Pavilion Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If your export-ready company features products from the agriculture and agri-food sectors, you can get funding to offset the cost of booth prices on a show-by-show basis when you exhibit at trade shows.
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Canadian Agricultural Strategic Priorities Program
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If you’re a not-for-profit or Indigenous organization working towards sustainability and competitiveness by adopting new technology or building capacity, get up to $1 million per project in cost-shared funding to cover up to 50% of eligible project costs in most cases, and up to 75% for high-priority projects for the sector.
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Community Futures Network of Canada
Community Futures
If your business is located in a rural community, you may be eligible for financing and business support services through your local Community Futures organization.
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Creating, Knowing and Sharing — Short-Term Projects
Canada Council for the Arts
Get a grant of up to $100,000 for projects up to 12 months involving creating (research/writing), knowing (mentorship, training) or sharing (exhibitions, presentations, collaborations) — including those with non-Indigenous artists.
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Créavenir
Desjardins
If you are under 35 years of age and starting a business or developing a business that is less than 3 years old, obtain financial assistance in the form of a line of credit of up to $15,000 at a preferential rate of 0.5% and a grant of up to $5000.
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Farm Credit Canada — Loans and lending options
Farm Credit Canada
You could access flexible financing options for your farming, agri-food or agribusiness operation.
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Financial assistance for music production and variety programming (in French only)
SODEC
Do you own a music, entertainment-production, or artist management company? If so, you could get a grant for your commercial activities.
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Fonds Entrepreneuriat commercial
PME MTL
Receive up to $25,000 in financial assistance to develop your business in the retail sector.
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INNOGEC - Relance Fund (in French only)
Filaction
Get up to $10,000 to cover the fees of experts who will help your collective business assess the situation following the health crisis and up to $30,000 for them to assist you with your change management plan, recovery or business model adjustment.
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INNOGEC Fund (in French only)
Filaction
Get up to $15,000 to cover a portion of the service fees of management and governance consultants employed by your group company.
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Invest-AI (in French only)
Vooban
Have you started your digital transformation and have one or more projects with an AI component? You could receive a grant to cover up to 50% of your activities.
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NGen Cluster Building Project
NGEN - Next Generation Manufacturing
You can get a funding of up to $150, 000 to cover a maximum of 50% of eligible costs if you work within an industry-led, membership-based organization to enhance capabilities and growth through the application of, or access to advanced manufacturing technologies, best practices and principles.
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Plateforme d'innovation panneaux (in French only)
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs
Get a grant of up to $375,000 for your wood-to-panel project.
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Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program — Stream 1
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Get a non-repayable contribution to cover up to 70% of the costs of on-farm investments in modernizing operations, increasing efficiency, biosecurity, environmental sustainability, and meeting changing consumer demands, retroactive to March 19, 2019.
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Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program — Stream 2
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
If you were 35 years old or younger on January 1, 2021, get a non-repayable contribution to cover up to 85% of the costs of on-farm investments in modernizing operations, increasing efficiency, biosecurity, environmental sustainability, and meeting changing consumer demands, retroactive to March 19, 2019.
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Programme Compétitivité et environnement 2022-2024 (in French only)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation
Obtain financial assistance for the contribution of expertise, the improvement of competitiveness and the realization of structuring projects in your company in the dairy and meat processing sectors.
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Programme de soutien financier aux orientations gouvernementales en action communautaire et en action bénévole (in French only)
Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale
Obtain financial support of up to $400,000 for the research and implementation of projects that support government orientations in community action.
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Programme de soutien à l'économie sociale - volet 3: Projets structurants de mutualisation (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Obtain support for projects involving the sharing or pooling of resources, services or activities between social economy enterprises in order to optimize access to these resources and ensure the economic viability of the enterprises.
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Programme de soutien à l'économie sociale - volet 4: Approvisionnement auprès des entreprises d'économie sociale (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Get financial support for promotional and outreach activities that allow your company to access government, municipal and private markets.
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Programme d’appui au développement des secteurs stratégiques et des créneaux d’excellence (in French only)
Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Receive a grant of up to 50% of the cost of eligible expenses for the implementation of departmental and governmental strategies for the development of strategic sectors and niches of excellence.
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Programme d’appui financier au développement du secteur des pêches et de l’aquaculture commerciales - Volet 1 - Appui au développement [PDF](in French only)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation
Obtain financial assistance of up to $1,000,000 for the development of products or the implementation of innovative processes aimed at increasing your company's production and sales.
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Programme d’appui financier au développement du secteur des pêches et de l’aquaculture commerciales - Volet 2 - Amélioration de la compétitivité des entreprises de transformation des produits [PDF](in French only)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation
Receive up to $300,000 in financial assistance to improve the productivity, food safety and security of your products in order to strengthen your company's competitiveness.
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Quebec Economic Development Program
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Find out about financial and other resources that can help you develop your Quebec business.
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REGI — Business Scale-up and Productivity — CED (QC) — Private sector
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Get a financial contribution to help you scale up and expand, adopt and commercialize innovative technologies and processes, or diversify your markets.
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REGI — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — CED (QC) — Not-for-profit
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Your organization could get a financial contribution to assist businesses at all stages of development in scaling up and becoming more globally competitive. Investments will focus on enhancing business support networks for under-represented groups — including women, Indigenous peoples and young entrepreneurs — and supporting regional strategic clusters, accelerators and incubators, and projects that attract foreign investments.
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Soutien aux initiatives de développement économique dans l'arrondissement d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville (in French only)
Ville de Montréal
Get financial assistance to propel your collective economic development initiatives.
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Supply Management Processing Investment Fund
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Receive up to 5 million dollars in cost-sharing funding for your for-profit organization in the supply-managed sectors to invest in your processing facilities to improve productivity and/or efficiency through the acquisition of new automated equipment and technology.
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Support for innovation projects
Investissement Québec
Get up to $350,000 to cover 50% of the costs of project planning, R&D, technology validation and technological showcase activities relating to the development of innovative products or processes.
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Sustainable Growth Investment — Agri-Environmental Enhancement of Cultivated Land
La Financière agricole du Québec
Get a grant of up to $20,000 when you secure a loan guarantee of up to $200,000 from La Financière agricole for on-farm agri-environmental projects, or ones that will enhance the value of your cultivated land.
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Sustainable Growth Investment — Growth Support
La Financière agricole du Québec
Get a grant of up to $15,000 when you secure a loan guarantee of up to $150,000 from La Financière agricole for agribusiness projects related to supply-managed production or maple syrup production.
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Sustainable Growth Investment — Growth Support Plus
La Financière agricole du Québec
Get a grant of up to $150,000 when you secure a loan guarantee of up to $600,000 from La Financière agricole for all projects except those related to supply-managed production or maple syrup production.
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
Telus
Get funding for your innovative projects in health, education, agriculture and the environment.
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Transformation numérique des entreprises collectives (in French only)
Conseil québécois de la coopération et de la mutualité
Get funding of up to $20,000 and training for the digital transformation of your collective business (cooperative or NPO).