Canada business has multiple advantages and unparalleled potential. Resource and energy rich, the northern nation also boasts a highly skilled workforce supported by generous government R&D incentives, giving Canada the Lowest R&D cost structure in the G-7. Business in Canada benefits from low corporate taxes, a duty-free manufacturing tariff regime, and access to 453 million consumers who are part of the North America Free Trade Agreement. Combine this with a life style advantage of clean and friendly cities, amazing outdoors, universal health care, and world-class universities and there is little doubt why Canadian business is the recipient of billions of dollars of direct foreign investment.