Québec is:
- a natural gateway to the North American continent, providing easy access to a market of more than 442 million consumers via the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA);
- an educated workforce, with 75% of the working-age population having a high school education or higher;
- a competitive tax environment that promotes investment and economic growth;
- an opportunity to leverage some of the lowest business set-up and operating costs in the industrialized world;
- the most multilingual province in Canada: 41% of Québecers are fluent in two languages and nearly 10% are fluent in three;
- a dynamic research community;
- the province that attracted the highest proportion of investments in Canada in 2009;
- a leader in the fight against climate change.
