AVAILABLE LABOUR FORCE

Québec has the second-largest labour pool in Canada:

• Active population of over 4 million
• Largest pool of engineers in Canada
• 40% of Quebec's population is bilingual
• Within an hour, with 160 000 students, it has the second-highest ratio of students per capita in North America, just behind Boston.
• The costs are, on an average, 11,8% lower in Québec than in the United States for the microelectronics industry, partly because salaries are lower.
• Foreign researchers employed by a company in Canada that does R&D in Quebec benefit from a provincial tax holiday on their salary for five consecutive years. (declining tax holiday) 
• Emploi Québec                                                                      http://emploiquebec.net/francais/index.htm
• Human resources and social development Canada                                                                                                                                                       
• http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/redirect_hr.html