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Unified Voice for Canada’s Largest Cities

collaborating to promote Canada as a destination for global trade and investment

Consider Canada City Alliance: Contribution to Canada’s Economy

59.6%

Population GDP GDP Growth

65.1% 83.4%

Global Trends

Concentration of Population into Cities Global supply chains Increase of city to city relationship Competition for high value components of supply chain Importance of cities to national economies Importance of services as

• pposed to manufacturing

Canadian Cities: Our Competitive Advantage

Market Access Skills Costs

Market Access: NAFTA, CETA and TPP

$48+ Trillion

CETA: CANADA NAFTA: CANADA TPP: CANADA

Market Access: CETA

CETA: CANADA

Global Skills Strategy

Global Skills Strategy: Attracting Talent

• Two-week processing for visas and work

permits for low-risk, high-skill talent

• A dedicated service channel for companies

looking to make large, job-creating investments

• Discontinued the work permit requirement

for very short-term work (for instance, 30 days or less) in low-risk fields. Brief academic stays also eligible.

#1 IN THE G20 FOR DOING BUSINESS #1 IN G7 FOR CORPRATE TAX RATE AND COST COMPETITIVENESS 3rd SOUNDEST BANKS IN THE WORLD

for 9th consecutive year

(Source: Bloomburg, Best Countries for Business 2014.) (Source: KPMG, Cost Competitive Report 2016) ( Source: World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017) (Source: THE IMD WORLD TALENT RANKING)

#1 IN THE WORLD TO HEADQUARTER A CORPORATION

Canada’s Advantage

HIGHEST POST-SECONDARY ATTAINMENT AMOUNG OECD

(Source: OECD. Education at a Glance

• 2015. November 2015.)

2nd MOST TALENT COMPETITIVE COUNTRY IN THE G20

“Our company believes Canada is a great place to invest. Canada is uniquely qualified and positioned to be an

• utstanding source for innovation and at the forefront of

transforming the world.” Nitin Kawale, Former President, Cisco Canada Canada is Cisco’s top five R&D countries in the world

Source: KPMG 2017

Sustainable Incentive Environment

1.Tax credits

• SR&ED
• University Research
• Digital Media
• Manufacturing

2.Direct funding

• Sustainable

Technologies

• Training grants
• IRAP
• Science and

Engineering graduates

• 3. Financing
• EDC (Export)
• BDC
• Canadian Banks
• Venture Capital

Concentration of Innovation

• Visual Effects & Animation capital of the world, and 3rd largest Film

& TV production centre

• One of the world’s largest cleantech clusters, and 3rd greenest city

in the world Creative Industries and Green technology Advanced Manufacturing and Healthcare Energy and Agribusiness

• World renowned health facilities, specialties include cardiology,
• ncology, transplantation and virology
• Home to NANOFAB, Canada’s premier micro and nanofabrication

research facility

 Workforce has the second highest educational attainment in the country, with 27% of all bachelors degree or higher program completions in STEM disciplines  With $. illio i sales i , food aufaturig is Alerta’s largest manufacturing sector

Concentration of Innovation

• 60+ leading global food and beverage companies
• Largest cluster of animation & game development studios in Ontario
• Aerospace industry is the largest in Western Canada and home to a

diversified cluster of world-class manufacturing

• Nine world-recognized major food development and research

centres are based in Winnipeg

• 30% of Canada’s Ag-Biotech industry is in Saskatoon
• World’s largest uranium producing company and fertilizer company

Biotechnology and Agribusiness Aerospace and Agribusiness Advanced Manufacturing, Food and Beverage

Concentration of Innovation

• Ottawa become the first Canadian City to launch testing of an on-

street autonomous vehicle

• CENGN, world leading research center in next generation

network technologies

• Toronto ranks third in PWC’s Global Cities of Opportunity and was

ranked least risky global city for employers by Aon

• Toronto is the second-largest financial services centre and third-

largest technology centre in North America Automotive and ICT Financial Services and Technology Software and Communication Technologies

• Home to world leading commercialization accelerators and incubators, such as the

world’s largest IoT Makerspace (Catalyst137) and the world’s largest free start-up incubator (Velocity)

• The University of Waterloo, Canada’s most innovative university for 26 consecutive

years, has the largest concentration of automotive researchers (125+) and science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) faculty in the country

Concentration of Innovation

• One of the worlds top 3 hubs for multimedia and video

games

• Facebook, Samsung, DeepMind and Thales announced

the opening of an AI lab in Montréal in 2017

• Highest concentration of oceans-related PhDs in the world
• Home to Autoport, one of North America’s largest vehicle

processing and transhipment facilities

• Global innovation networks in Nutrition & Life Sciences, digital

technologies & creative industry, photonic & advanced instrumentation

• Highest concentration of research infrastructures in Canada

Creative Industries and Artificial Intelligence Life Sciences, ICT & Creative Industries Ocean Technology, Transportation and Logistics

Concentration of Innovation

Advanced Manufacturing & Life Sciences “As we started to grow in this country, we found that Canada’s world-class collaborative research environment and the Government of Canada’s willingness to engage in partnership-oriented R&D, were extremely important factors in the growth of our business.” Eme Onuoha, Vice President of Global Government Affairs (Canada) at Xerox Corporation

• Four modes of transportation (road, rail, air, port). Canada’s busiest

multi-modal cargo airport, the busiest port on the Canadian Great Lakes and is only 40 minutes away from Toronto and the US Border.

• Surrounded by 23 post-secondary institutions and with immediate

access to a workforce of 2 Million within a one hour drive, and is home to McMaster University- one of Canada’s top 3 most research- intensive universities.

Office Space Incorporation Services Research Resources Staffing Services Accounting Professionals Local Business Network Government Funding Programs Business Mentors and Advisors Fully Operational North American Office

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Ongoing support

Fast Track Your Business Expansion with CCCA Members

Global Skills Strategy

Investment Hub

New investment promotion agency, with the goal of attracting international investment. Headed by a Chief Executive Officer, the hub will provide seamless, single-window client support targeted at high-impact investors. *CCCA is a strategic partner for municipal business services

Emerging Sectors: Artificial Intelligence

Can be found across CCCA member cities

Emerging Sectors: Big Players in Autonomous Vehicles

Ottawa Toronto Waterloo Québec City

Provider of optical detection and ranging technology, the company produces images that are 25 times sharper than rival lidar companies. Blackberry-QNX launched Canada’s first on-street test

• f an Autonomous Vehicle in

Ottawa. Ford Canada announced a new $337.9 million R&D centre in Ottawa with an AV focus. Launched a research hub in Toronto focused on developing artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles. It’s Uber’s first advanced technologies research centre

• utside of the U.S.

University of Waterloo, home to WAVELab, the Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory. WAVELab works on both aerial and ground autonomous vehicles, and has partnered with local robotics companies, including Aeryon Labs and Clearpath Robotics.

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Stability Globalization

(Source: GEM 2013 Global Report)

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