Why Ontario
The Economist Intelligence Unit has forecast that Canada will be one of the best countries in the world to do business through to 2011. And, with the rise of the global business model, Ontario has emerged as an efficient North American hub for international business.
Ontario offers:
- Talent: a skilled and diverse workforce
- Access: proximity to U.S. market and strong global trade partnerships
- Innovation: Commitment to research and commercialization
- Growth: a diversified and growing economy
- Cost competitiveness: internationally competitive wage and tax rates
Savvy multinationals are taking advantage of Ontario's strengths to produce world-class products for global markets.
- Toyota's Ontario plant is the only site outside Japan to produce the luxury Lexus.
- Messier-Dowty manufactures landing gear systems in Ontario for some of the biggest names in aerospace including Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault and Raytheon.
- GlaxoSmithKline produces medications worth billions each year in Ontario, 80 per cent of which are exported to more than 70 countries.
- More than 8 million people around the world use BlackBerry wireless devices invented, manufactured and marketed by Research in Motion (RIM) of Ontario.
Fast Facts
- We speak more than 100 languages in Ontario, which means we can work with your customers and suppliers in their own language, anywhere in the world.
- In a survey by The Scientist magazine, 35,000 researchers around the world ranked the University of Toronto as the best place to work outside the U.S.
- A higher percentage of Ontario workers have completed their post-secondary education than in any G7 country.
- In an Economist survey of 90 countries, only Finland and Sweden ranked higher than Canada in the areas of honesty and reliability in business.
Ontario. There's no better place to do business.
