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Premier Tech and Canada Economic Development: Case Study of an Extremely Successful Partnership

Introduction

Since mid-1995, a business relationship between the regional office of a federal agency and a family business in the Lower St Lawrence has developed in a way that has made it a concrete
example of the “ethos of confidence” principle, which was set out by researcher Alain Peyrefitte and suggests that confidence is the key to modernity, progress and growth. The report that follows bears witness to this theory, describing a relationship that, in its early stages, was based on caution on both sides through an exemplary partnership, but developed into a concrete example of the theory put forth by Peyrefitte.