Montréal is located less than an hour and half by air from New York and Boston. The Montréal area is served by two international airports, Mirabel and Montréal-Trudeau, which provide direct connections to more than 150 domestic and international destinations, including the major cities of America, Europe and Asia. Very easy to reach, the Montréal-Trudeau airport is less than 20 minutes from downtown Montréal.

A particularly reliable and efficient communications network connects Montréal with the whole world. The entire long distance telephone network is digitized and composed primarily of fibre optic cables and microwave links. Internet access, required for connecting local economies with international markets, is provided by cable modem or asymmetric digital subscriber lines that allow compression and high speed voice, data and image transmission. High speed Internet connection is widespread in major industries, schools, universities and municipal libraries, and almost half of all Montréal households are connected to the Internet [1]