PESTLE ANALYSIS OF IT

INDUSTRY IN CANADA
Presented By

Prithviraj Chavan

Ashish Deo

Anurag Deopujari
Omkar Despande

Poonam Dhingane

OVERVIEW OF COUNTRY

In 1867, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova

Scotia formed the confederation. On July 1, 1867, the
British North America Act declared.

In 1965, they adopted red and white flag with the maple
leaf as there official flag.

English and French are two official languages in Canada.

Canada is 2nd largest country in the World with 10

millions square kms of land mass.

The capital of Canada is Ottawa.

PRIORITIES OF IT SECTOR IN
CANADA

Improving productivity through the adoption of

technology.

Driving innovation and competitiveness in the

technology sector.

Improving the talent pool, skill and diversity of

technology sector.

Modernizing

public

information technology.

sector

in

its

use

of

POLITICAL ANLYSIS

Canada

is

democracy

with

parliamentary

government.

There government consists of three parts : Federal,

Provincial and Municipal.

Leading

political

parties

Liberal

party,

Conservative party and others.

Canada is great Historic and Vibrant democracy.

Thus political support and stability has helped

thrive IT industry in Canada.

ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS

Canada is tenth largest economy in the world.

Rank : 10th (Nominal)/ 14th (PPP)

Currency : Canadian Dollar

Trade Organization : NAFTA, OECD, WTO & others

Statistics

GDP - $1.839 trillion (2013 est.)

GDP growth - 1.9% (2012 est.)

GDP by sector - agriculture: 1.9%, industry: 27.1%,

services: 71% (2011 est.)

Information technology industry forms 5.1 % of

Canada's GDP.

SOCIO CULTURE ANALYSIS

Canadian culture is a term that embodies artistic,

musical, literally, political and social elements that
are representative of Canada not only to its own
population but also people around the world.

In general Canadian are highly concerned about

the protection of Canadian sovereignty and loyalty
to the Canadian state.

Canadian humor is integral part of Canadian

identity

Because of IT industry the inflow of migrants has

increased rapidly. This has lead to insecurity
among locals.

Outsourcing

has

also

increased

unemployment rate among Canadian youth.

the

TECHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Thetechnological

and

industrial

history

of

Canadaencompasses the country's development in

the area of Information Technology.

The city of Toronto is one of the biggest software

industry hub in the world.

Modern

technology

has

helped

to

increase

agriculture productivity in Canada.

Blackberry, the pioneer of Smartphone technology

is based in Canada.

LEGAL ANALYSIS

Canada is federal state with parliamentary system.

Supreme

political

authority

rests

with

Canadas

bicameral parliament, which consists of senate and house

of common.

Canadas constitutions is its supreme law and any law

passed

by

any

federal,

provincial

or

territorial

government that is inconsistent with the constitution is

invalid.

Strong judicial system has helped IT companies acquired

IPR of modern technology.

ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

Canadas climate dominated by extreme long and

cold winter. With the exception of pacific coast.

Just 8 % of Canada's land area is farmed land,

more than 30 % of Canada is forest. The forest
between Newfoundland and the Yukon is one of
the biggest.

More northern areas are occupied by tundra and

arctic islands are covered by permanent icecaps.

MAJOR IT COMPANIES DOING

BUSINESS IN CANADA

Apple.inc

Microsoft

Google

Oracleetc..

MAJOR INDIAN IT COMPANIES

DOING BUSINESS IN CANADA

Infosys

TCS

Wipro

L & T InfoTech

Persistent.