Neuf 48++ Quebec Maple Syrup Can. Québec has approximately 11,300 maple syrup producers who own 7,400 maple syrup businesses with quotas. Maple syrup isn't just for pancakes anymore, thanks to a group of maple syrup producers in quebec who are trying to turn a cottage industry into a global empire. The federation of quebec maple syrup producers (french: Montreal chef martin picard says maple syrup runs through the veins of quebecers like the sap that flows from the trees each spring in sugar.