Quebec spending millions on diplomatic offices around the world

Par Allan Woods, The Star

While other Canadian provinces largely shuttered their international outposts in a bid to balance budgets in the mid-1990s, Quebec has built up a formidable force of quasi-ambassadors around the world.

By the numbers

23: Number of Quebec diplomatic offices around the world

6: Number of Quebec offices in the U.S.

$8.5 million: Annual cost of running Quebec’s U.S. offices

2: Number of Ontario offices in the U.S.

$24.5 million: Cost of operating the federal government’s Washington embassy last year