Montréal International — Foreign Investment and Talent Attraction

Montréal International (MI) is the investment-promotion and talent-attraction agency for the Greater Montréal metropolitan region, established in 1996 and co-financed by the City of Montréal, the Québec government, the federal government and private-sector partners.

To attract and support foreign direct investment into Greater Montréal and to help local companies recruit international skilled talent, tracking both pipelines in a single annual report.

MI operates the Journées Québec format — multi-sector job fairs held in selected origin countries — and the Talent Montréal initiative for skilled international recruitment, alongside its core investment-promotion work across cleantech, AI, life sciences and energy-transition sectors.

In 2024, MI supported 59 foreign-investment projects totalling C$2.7 billion, creating or maintaining 4,790 jobs at an average annual salary of C$105,439. It also assisted 150+ companies with recruitment and immigration, recording 287 hires at Journées Québec events and 370 work permits processed; two-thirds of these placements were in education, childcare and healthcare. In 2023, Talent Montréal placed more than 1,000 international professionals in local companies.

MI is among the few city-level agencies that publicly tracks and reports on both investment-attraction and talent-placement pipelines in a single annual report, enabling year-on-year comparison, though investment-project volume is sensitive to economic cycles and job-figure attribution methodology is not separately published.