Canadian direct investment assets in top ten offshore financial centres and their rank in countries in which Canadian enterprises invested in 2003:

Country Investment (millions of $) Rank

Barbados 24,690 3

Ireland (Dublin) 18,226 4

Bermuda 10,845 6

Cayman 10,619 8

Bahamas 8,802 11

Switzerland 4,044 18

Singapore 3,735 19

Hong Kong 2,535 22

Malaysia (Labuan) 716 32

Luxembourg 683 33