i. the amount by which the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the salary or wages paid by the qualified corporation to an employee in respect of a pay period, within the calendar year, for which the employee is an eligible employee, in relation to a recognized business in respect of nutraceuticals, exceeds the aggregate of all amounts each of which is, in relation to a recognized business in respect of nutraceuticals, (1) except in respect of a corporation that results from an amalgamation, an amount equal to zero, where, at no time in its base period in relation to the recognized business, the corporation carried on a business in Québec in the sectors of activity described in paragraph b of the definition of “recognized business” in the first paragraph of section 1029.8.36.72.56, and
(2) in any other case, the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the salary or wages that were paid by the corporation to an employee in respect of a pay period, within its base period, in relation to the recognized business, for which the employee is an eligible employee, and