Ottawa

• highest household income in Canada
• economy growing by three percent per year
• population to increase by 50% in the next 15 years
• highest-educated workforce in Canada
• more engineers, scientists and PhDs per capita than any other city in the country
• 90 per cent of Canada’s industrial telecommunications research and development conducted in Ottawa
• one of the world's top five sites for R&D
• ranked sixth in the world for quality of life