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[Music] in this video we're going to talk about the history of the canadian pension model which was started by ontario teachers pension plan then we're going to talk about how other pensions in canada adopted this model with an example from the canada pension plan investment board and finally we're going to discuss why this model is so difficult to replicate around the world less than four percent of the world's public companies are based in canada when we look at the biggest 10 companies on the planet well none of them are based in canada and when we look at the size of the canadian economy based on gdp it's not first second or third in fact it's the tenth biggest economy in the world and so for a country that is this small on a world stage why does it represent three of the 10 biggest investors in private equity in the world well it's because of the unique canadian pension model now before we go through the canadian pension model let's recall what a pension is a pension is a sum of m