It's been a strange and unnerving 12 months, filled with plot twists worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy, cautions Gordon Pape, a Canada-based investment expert and editor of Internet Wealth Builder.

Back in early January, who would have believed that Canada would be deemed a strategic risk to the U.S. and have tariffs slapped on our steel and aluminum exports? Who foresaw Canadian oil prices falling to record lows, deepening the recession in Alberta?

How could we have predicted the economic and political fallout that we're now experiencing after the arrest of a Chinese business executive in Vancouver at the request of the U.S.? And the list goes on and on. It has truly been a bizarre year! Unhappily, 2019 isn't looking a lot better.

Meanwhile, our top pick for more aggressive investors is CGI Group (GIB). Montreal-based CGI is the fifth largest independent information technology and business process services firm in the world.

It employs about 74,000 professionals in offices and delivery centers across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. The stock dropped a little during the December correction and looks attractive at the current price. The balance sheet is solid.

At 2018 fiscal year-end, the company had $184.1 million in cash and $1.3 billion in unused credit facilities. This is an international company with excellent upside potential.

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