This report uses data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Employers on Workers’ Skills (SEWS) to provide an overview of the skills sought, available, and developed within Canadian businesses. It focuses in particular on basic mathematics skills, numeracy, critical thinking, and problem-solving, comparing Quebec with Ontario and the rest of Canada. Our results show that basic mathematics skills are rarely perceived as a skills gap by businesses, both in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. Quebec businesses, however, place relatively greater emphasis on technical, managerial, and computer skills, and less emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication, both when recruiting and when developing employees’ skills. The results also show that Quebec businesses differ in how they manage skills. They assess their skills needs less frequently, make less use of informal skills-development practices such as mentoring and feedback, and report greater recruitment difficulties, regardless of the level of education required. Across all three regions, more than half of businesses attribute these difficulties to a lack of interested applicants, suggesting that job attractiveness is as much an issue as an actual shortage of skills. Finally, when faced with skills gaps, businesses tend to favour internal work reorganization rather than investing in human capital development.