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Canada is a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a single open market of almost 400 million people. |
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Canada has one of the world's top ten stock markets by market value. |
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Canada has the lowest business costs in electronics, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications equipment and software. |
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The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expects Canada to have the largest percentage growth in employment among all G-8 countries. |
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Canada's federal government budget made Canada the only G-8 country to have a balanced budget. |
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With four universities, Montreal is the university research capital of Canada. |
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Montreal's unique strength lies in its talented pool of multicultural professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. |
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Montreal's “Bombardier” is among the world's leading civil aircraft manufacturers, after “Airbus Industrie” and “Boeing”. |
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Montreal hosts headquarters of more than 50 major international agencies. |
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“Hydro Quebec” provides electrical power at costs substantially lower than in the United States of America. |
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The life expectancy of Canadians is 82 years, which ranks them among the five longest living nationalities. |
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Canada has long been one of the world's leading grain producers. |
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Canada is home to 150 colleges and universities and spends 7,3 % of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education. |
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Canada spends 9% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare and has a tradition of health-related research. |
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Canadian tax laws encourage venture capital investing and this nurtures innovative high-tech companies. |
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While Canada is famous for its landscape, 78% of Canadians live in the convenience of an urban setting. |
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Environment Canada considers the air to be poor in major Canadian cities only for one, two or three days of the year. |
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Wood “Buffalo” national park occupies a larger territory than Taiwan or the Netherlands. |
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Cottage and resort country is only one, two or three hour drive away for most residents of large Canadian cities. |
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Canada is blessed with 9% of the world's fresh water. |
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Toronto is only one-day drive from more than one-half of the population of the United States of America. |
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The year round port of Vancouver focuses its exportations on the huge markets of Asia. |
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The Alberta oil sands hold 1,7 trillion barrels of oil-one-third of the world's recoverable oil reserves. |
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The Montreal area is particularly strong in growing industries within global markets such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, software and telecommunications. |
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