Western Canada
Booming Opportunity = Investor Profitability

Canada’s four western provinces are the crossroads between the massive US market and the burgeoning economies of Asia. They are also the nexus for Canada’s traditional and new economy:

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• Saskatchewan

The region’s rich endowment of natural resources—petroleum and natural gas, timber, minerals, productive farmland and tourism assets—continue to be the powerhouse of the Western Canadian economy. But the region’s advances in aerospace, agri-food and value-added agriculture, biotechnology, environmental technologies, information and communications technologies (ICTs) and medical devices are quickly matching them.

With the advantages of groundbreaking R&D, regional clusters, highly-skilled people and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, the sky is the limit in big-sky country—Canada ’s vast prairie and Pacific region. Of those places with the best climate in Canada and three of the best places in the world to live, as voted in the ???? , Vancouver, Kelowna and Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast,BC stands out as the place to invest.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Gateway to the Asia-Pacific Region

While people have long been lured by British Columbia’s extraordinary beauty and mild climate, they are increasingly attracted by the province’s explosive economic growth. Almost a million kilometers square, larger than France and Germany combined, Canada’s western most province offers unbeatable opportunities to investors looking for a gateway location between North America and Asia. With incentives for investments in R&D, machinery and equipment, mining exploration, film and new media, and provincial tax credits, exemptions and deductions for business investment and innovation, BC is offering a world of opportunity for businesses looking to invest. The world will discover what BC has to offer when Vancouver/Whistler host the 2010 Olympic winter games.

Business Environment

• GDP in 2006 of $180 billion and total goods exported worth $33.5 billion

• Foreign companies spent $10 billion for business expansion, modernization and new facilities in British Columbia in 2006 and 2007

• Home to several thriving and burgeoning high technology sectors

• Over $1.5 billion invested in R&D over the past few years making the province a world leader in several technology fields, including advanced energy, and life sciences

• National leader in regulatory reform, committed to reducing red tape and creating better regulations that cost less, are more effective, results-based and responsive to business

Workforce

• 6 universities, 3 university colleges, 12 community colleges and 5 provincial technology or technical institutes have shaped a high quality, diverse labor pool of 2.4 million which is continuously expanding in line with the needs of high-growth sectors

• Over 107,250 skilled workers immigrated to British Columbia between 2001 and 2006, enriching BC’s international networks, cultural diversity and multi-lingual capabilities

Other Key Advantages

• The advanced energy sector includes the largest hydrogen and fuel cell division in the world—Ballard Power Systems, representing 75% of Canadian fuel cell and hydrogen based R&D expenditures and 69% of Canada’s employment in the sector

• Close to 1,000 non-Canadian firms are serving their international customers from BC

• Vancouver ranks 3rd out of 215 cities worldwide and 1st in North America for quality of living (Mercer Human Resource Consulting 2006)

Sector Strengths:

• Information and Communications Technology
• Biotechnology and Life Sciences
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Value-Added Wood Products
• Agri-Food and Fish Products
• Energy & Power Technologies
• Mining
• Contact Centers and Business Process Operations
• Film and TV Production
• Resort Tourism

VANCOUVER:

Consistently ranked the best place in the world to live. Vancouver is so unique it captures the worlds imagination and with good reason.

It is a city cradled between the beautiful straights of Georgia and the North Shore Mountains it is surrounded by unbelievable natural beauty with snow capped peaks and stunning Ocean Vistas.

It offers a mild climate years round with gorgeous hot summers from often may to October.

With all this on their doorstep Vancouverites have a healthy life style.

Imagine waking up in the morning, putting on your ski gear, taking a few turns on the picturesque mountains, going Kayaking in the ocean and playing a round of gold with friends in the afternoon. You could even if you have the energy take in a mountain bike ride on the 100’s mile of mountain bike trails on the North shore.

In the evening dine in one of the plethora of fabulous Vancouver restaurants.

Beauty apart, Vancouver and its surrounds has a truly integrated multicultural population, where all are made to feel welcome and at home.

Two million people already live here and over 9 million annual visitors keep coming back and you only have to visit once to see why – in terms of lifestyle, quality of life, things to do it has it all.

Bearing all this in mind there is no safer or better place to buy real estate and with a 0 vacancy rate on rentals if you don’t want to live in your real estate purchase then renting will give you not only capital growth but also returns and all this in one of the safest economies in the world. It is, as they say a no brainer