According to the source, "Businesses are counted according to the number of ‘statistical locations' they have. For example, a retail business with 10 stores and a head office is counted 11 times in the Canadian business counts."
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, June 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Canadian business sites with employees 2022, by province or territory
As of June 2022, there were *** million business locations with employees in Canada. The largest number was located in Ontario, with roughly *** thousand locations. Quebec and British Colombia followed, with *** thousand and *** thousand units, respectively.
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