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CANADA’S BUSINESS
ADVANTAGES
Canada is open
COMPETITIVE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
for business and Canada is the
Canada is among the top
welcomes easiest place countries in the G20 for
foreign investment to start a business business in 2017 (Forbes)
in the G7 1. U.K.
£¥ (World Bank) 2. Canada
¤
3. Australia

4. Germany
Canada ✓ 1 2 # of procedures required
5 U.S.
U.K. ✓ 1 2 3 4 to start a business
France ✓ 1 2 3 4 5 6. France

OECD Average ✓ 1 2 3 4 5 7. South Korea

Italy ✓ 1 2 3 4 5 6
8. Japan
U.S. ✓ 1 2 3 4 5 6
✓ 9. Italy
Japan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Germany ✓ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. South Africa

# of days required
Canada 1.5
to start a business
U.K. 4.5
Business
France 3.5
costs
OECD Average 8.2
in Canada

14.6%
Italy 6.5 are up to
U.S. 4 lower
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than all other
G7 countries (KPMG)
Germany 10.5
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CANADA’S ECONOMY
ECONOMIC DELIVERS RESULTS
ENVIRONMENT Canada provides a top
performing economy
for businesses to grow,
innovate and succeed

more than

1.7
Between
were
June 2009
created
Canada’s economy
performs over
and today
million
the long haul jobs

2%
Real GDP growth (%)
in G7 countries
1.8% 2007-16 (OECD)

1.6%
1.5
1.4%

1.2%
1.3
1.2
This is 1.3 million
1.1 more jobs than the pre-recession peak
1% in October 2008 (Statistics Canada)

0.8%
0.7
0.6%
0.5
0.4%

0.2%

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Canada U.S. Germany U.K. France Japan

-0.6
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UNPARALLED GLOBAL
MARKET ACCESS
With free trade agreements covering more than
FREE TRADE
ENVIRONMENT
Through NAFTA,
40 countries, Canada is your gateway investors in Canada gain
to the world preferential access
to a continental market
European
Union of over

European
NAFTA US $21
United States
Free Trade
Association
trillion (GDP)
Mexico Honduras South
Korea
with
482
Panama
Costa Rica nearly
million
Colombia
Peru Jordan

Chile consumers
Ukraine Israel

CETA Through CETA,

al
investors in Canada
Glob
GD P gain preferential acces
to a continental market
Canada’s
of over
US $16
preferential market
access represents over

1.2 billion trillion (GDP)

consumers and over
500
with
US $41 trillion more than
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OUTSTANDING
OUTSTANDING QUALITY OF LIFE
LIVING ENVIRONMENT Canada:
a great place to live
and prosper

Canada is #1 in the G7
in terms of overall living conditions and Canada ranks in the G7

Canada
quality of life (OECD)
7.84
#1 by international experts
for the following:
U.S. 7.6

Germany 7.2

U.K. 6.94

France
Japan 5.76
6.93
2 3
Prosperity
Italy 5.51

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Social Progress

Canada enjoys the 2nd highest standard of living

Democracy
in the G7, as measured by GDP per capita (IMF)
U.S. 57,608 Security
Canada 42,225

Germany 42,177
Global Peace
U.K. 40,050

Japan 38,833

France 38,178 Overall Reputation

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0 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 $50,000 $60,000

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TALENTED WORKFORCE
Canada offers

1 out of 5 Canadians
Canadians
EXCEPTIONAL
LABOUR FORCE business the
most educated are linguistically
talent pool among diverse speaks one of over
OECD countries languages

60% Percentage of individuals aged 25-64 More than from Science, Technology,

50,000
having attained tertiary-level Engineering, Math and
56.3
education in top 10 OECD countries Computer Science (STEM)
50%
graduates academic programs
50.5 49.9
each year throughout the country
46.9
46 45.7
43.7 43.6 43 42.8
40%

According to a survey
conducted by the OECD, in the
Program for International
30%
Student Assessment (PISA),
Canadian schoolchildren rank:

20% 1st in
Canada Japan Israel South
Korea
U.K. U.S. Australia Finland Norway Ireland
reading
2nd in
science
#2 in G7 2nd in
availability of qualified engineers
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matching business needs with
management education among G7 countries
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TAKING YOUR GAME
TO THE NEXT LEVEL!
DIGITAL GAMES
SECTOR
Canada offers tax credits that
can cut your labour cost by
One of the largest
video game development
A talented workforce of industries in the world
21,700 people 17.5%
to 50%
Over Canada
590 studios has been
attracting
leading
international
Canada offers
studios for
game development
over
firms the lowest

decades
3 business cost
in the G7

Source: KPMG, Competitive Alternatives 2016

30.6%

18.1%
Canada Canada
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U.S. G7
Fall 2017
Source: Entertainment Software Association of Canada Countries
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MAKE CANADA YOUR
PLATFORM
Canada offers investors
DATA AND
COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR
unique advantages
in several data and
communications
verticalsa Data Analytics Internet of Things (IoT)
Enable products and
Wearable tech

Big Data and

Cloud Computing Analytics (BDA)

Telecommunications Equipment

+
Canada has the most
Telecommunications cost-competitive
Data Centres
Services business environment
NOVATEL
CISCO SYSTEMS
MICROSOFT
in the G7
ERICSSON CANADA
AMAZON.COM Cost advantage for the
POLAR MOBILE GROUP ALCATEL-LUCENT (NOKIA)
BASEBAND TECHNOLOGIES INC.
APPLE digital services sector:
ACCEDIAN NETWORKS REDKNEE
GOOGLE AVAYA 26%
BLINQ NETWORKS
IBM CANADA
ORACLE VIAVI

up to
NETGEAR
AT&T

SIERRA WIRELESS
GLENTEL

ABB

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS Cost advantage for the
RUGGEDCOMM (SIEMENS)
REDLINE COMMUNICATIONS
CIENA telecommunications equipment sector:
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up to 9.6%
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SOFTWARE
SECTOR
Canada by the numbers:
+
33,000 companies
$3.1
in R&D
billion
spending Canada has the most cost-competitive
business environment
+
377,200 jobs G7
$66.5 Contribution to GDP:
in the

billion $32+ billion

in revenue Cost advantage for the
FACEBOOK software design sector:

22.1%
THALES GROUP
AMAZON.COM
QNX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS up to
MITEL NETWORKS
DARKMATTER AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
ORACLE THOMSON REUTERS
TWITTER
INTEL
CISCO SYSTEMS DMR-(FUJITSU) SALESFORCE.COM

Cost advantage for the

SHOPIFYGOOGLE
OPENTEXT
AUTODESK INC.

digital entertainment /
TREND MICRO

MICROSOFT
video game production
CGI GROUP
FUJITSU CANADA WIPRO sectors:
3M COMPANY IBM

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FORCEPOINT
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS SAP AG up to 30.6%
COREL
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A GOOD PLACE TO LAND
YOUR NEXT INVESTMENT
Contributing
AEROSPACE
SECTOR
$28
billion
in GDP &

IN AEROSPACE
208,000
High-skilled jobs to the In the world, Canada ranks:
canadian economy in 2016
aircraft engine
production production
3 3
Made up of over
1
700 Civil flight
simulation
companies LIEBHERR
GE AEROSPACE
ROLLS-ROYCE Supply chain
MECACHROME TECHNOLOGIES
BELL HELICOPTER components exports
MARQUEZ
BOEING MITSUBISHI CORPORATION
ARTEC TECHNOLOGIES AVIANOR More than
SAFRAN
60
53% Aeroengines
FINMECCANICA SONACA
%
L3 COMMUNICATIONS 16% Avionics
LUFTHANSA CAE
HONEYWELL

of exports
AIRBUS DELASTEK

13% Landing gear

BOMBARDIER

PATT TECHNOLOGIES
BFI CANADA MELOCHE ALOUETTE are supply chain 18% Other aerospace
components parts
MDA
EPSILON

HÉROUX DEVTEK
3M

PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA SADEC

DEMA AERONAUTICS THALES AVIOR
OPAL-RT Made in

COMPOSITES ATLANTIC
MDS

CANADA
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CANADA DRIVES
TO SUCCEED
With more than a century
Highly Qualified Labour Force!
AUTOMOTIVE
SECTOR
of expertise in making cars
for the world, Canada’s Canadian assembly plants
mature automotive sector have won 1/3 of all
today boasts of: J.D. Power
plant quality awards for
North America,

nearly Canada’s education

3 institutions produce
qualified engineers,
times ICT workers, machinists,
metalworkers, welders, and
More than Annual production tool and die makers for the

1,000 of more than auto sector.

Canada’s share
companies 2 of regional production.

with almost
million
1,300 facilities vehicles, of which

20 passenger 85%
and commercial are exported
vehicle plants
Over Key Research Institutions University of

800 $100
for the Auto Sector Waterloo’s Centre
More than for Automotive Research

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parts plants McMaster
University Institute Montreal Institute for
in factory revenue for Automotive Research Learning Algorithms
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st
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CLEAN TECHNOLOGY
t
in

The Global Cleantech

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CLEAN TECHNOLOGY
SECTOR For Canada,
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ranks Canada
in
th
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0

lob
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the ranks of
Canadajoins can be attributed to the
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th
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— GCII
”
y
b all
CANADA’S NETWORKS LEAD THE WAY
glo

HYDROGEN AND
FUEL CELLS TROJAN UV
INDUSTRIAL 2.3
billion
BIOPRODUCTS
FARMERSEDGE
CARBONCURE
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND
MERCEDES-BENZ to support clean
ABB CANADA SIGMA ENERGY STORAGE ENERKEM technology
CLEAN SIEMENS CAPE SHARP TIDAL RENEWABLE ENERGY
NRSTOR research,
RESOURCES
HYDROGENICS GEODIGITAL RENEWABLE ENERGY

development,
CARGILL ECOBEE
LUMINULTRA
MINESENSE

demonstration and
LOOP ENERGY

FILTERBOXX
TERRAMERA
NOVA BUS
adaptation
BIOGENERATOR SHELL

TM4
H2O INNOVATION E-MOBILITY
CARBON
AXINE WATER TECHNOLOGIES
GE
21.9
CAPTURE, GRIDOS
UTILIZATION AND BALLARD POWER SYSTEMS MARMEN
STORAGE (CCUS) IMPERIAL OIL
billion
for
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green
ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
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THE WORLD
By the numbers:
AGRI-FOOD
PROCESSING SECTOR Made in Canada
=
trusted, safe,
world-class
processed food, of the
5th highest standard
largest exporter of
agricultural products
ROQUETTE
KELLOGG CANADA

$56 billion
DR. OETKER
LASSONDE INDUSTRIES INC
KRAFT CANADA INC.
exports GRUPO BIMBO UNILEVER CANADA INC FERRERO
SAPUTO GENERAL MILLS INC.
AGROPUR
NESTLÉ CANADA CAN-OAT MILLING CLEARWATER

$44 billion
BISCUITS LECLERC

HALIBUT PEI INC

SIMPLOT

BONDUELLE
JBS FOOD CANADA

BARRY CALLEBAUT

CARGILL INC.
OCEAN NUTRITION LTD.
imports
OCEAN SPRAY INC. MARS INC
KEYSTONE GRAINS OLYMEL
TWIN RIVERS TECHNOLOGIES
CAMPBELL COMPANY OF CANADA FRULACT
VITERRA
$110 billion
contribution to GDP The Canadian Agricultural
Partnership
federal, provincial and
5-year is a , territorial governments

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to strengthen the
agriculture and agri-food
jobs
investment by sector.
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DIGS DEEP
Canada’s mining
MINING
SECTOR
and mineral processing With abundant natural resources, Canada is a
industry by the numbers: leading producer of many minerals and metals

$60.3
$10

Canada’s leading minerals

billion $8
7.92
by value of production
in CAD billions (2015)
contribution to GDP
6.66
$6

19.1% $4 4.49
of domestic exports 3.59
2.80 2.13

373,000
$2

jobs
$0
Gold Potash Copper Nickel Iron ore Diamonds
Canada remains the
world’s top destination
for non-ferrous mineral
exploration investment
Over
31.8 50 13.5
in 2015,
attracting %
% % of global exploration
$10.4 budgets

billion stock of
of global exploration
budgets were from
of the total dollars
raised in the global
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investment in 2015 companies was raised in Canada
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BUSINESS SERVICES
ADVANTAGE
BUSINESS SERVICES
SECTOR
Accounting Services: Management Consulting: Transportation,
Canada has approximately warehousing and
$12 logistics: This robust
190,000
A
subsector employed
Infrastructure
Servies:
professional
accountants.
billion 738,000
industry, Canada’s
Global Infrastructure management service people and contributed
Investment Index 2016 operations are growing at
ranks Canada ahead $75
of the U.S., the U.K.,
2.5 % year.
billion
Australia, Japan, a
China and Mexico. to
Canada’s
GDP
CERIDIAN in 2016.
ERNST & YOUNG
MORGAN STANLEY
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
BANK OF AMERICA
INFOSYS VERITAS COMMUNICATIONS
FUJITSU GARDAWORLD SECURITY CORP
KPMG
WIPRO
MERRILL LYNCH HILL & KNOWLTON BENNETT JONES

MCKESSON UPS
BROOKFIELD
AECOM GOWLINGS

Business Process

MMM GROUP
BMM TESTLABS
Outsourcing: LAING O’ROURKE DELOITTE
Sophisticated, Diverse, PWC

IBM
GEM ADVERTISING

ENERFLEX
Mature, Cost Competitive DERICHEBOURG ENVIRONNEMENT FEDEX
ANNEX CONSULTING GROUP
and World-Class,

CGI
Canada brings value
COPERNICUS CONSULTING
and serves clients AMEC
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Contributing
5
Canadian Banks
FINANCIAL SERVICES
SECTOR
$120 One of the strongest
are Among

billion financial services

in GDP sectors in the world
(Source: World Economic Forum)

the 10
  Safest
in North America
World’s 1st Bitcoin ATM
  
(Source: Global Finance)

2
established in Canada in Canadian Banks

B 2013 are Among

the World’s

721,457 Top
jobs to the
canadian economy
(Source: Statistics Canada)
20
(Source: Bloomberg Markets)

¥ TMXGroup is

$
1st worldwide in
FINANCE AND LEASING
COMPANIES

MANAGERS
PENSION-FUND
¤ listed mining, oil and
TRUST AND LOAN COMPANIES gas companies
£ INSURANCE COMPANIES (Source: Toronto Financial Services Alliance)

$121.5 BANKS CREDIT UNIONS

billion
SECURITIES DEALERS
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foreign direct investment INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS BROKERS
in Canada