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5. Educated Workforce• Five Canadian universities are ranked among the top 100 in the world. (UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) World University rankings for 2013)• <strong>Canada</strong> has the highest proportion of college and university graduates among OECDcountries – 51% of the adult population have post-secondary education.• <strong>Canada</strong> has a technology savvy population and workforce. It leads the G-7 with respect toInternet users per capita and is second to the U.S. among the G-7 in terms of personalcomputers per capita. (IMD, World CompetitivenessYearbook 2013)• Canadian schoolchildren ranked first in theG-7 and fifth among all 65 countries surveyedin the OECD Program for InternationalStudent Assessment (PISA).• <strong>Canada</strong> has one of the world’s most diversesocieties with over 200 languages identifiedas mother tongue. (Statistics <strong>Canada</strong>, 2011)8

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