Cross-Border Forum Features Canada's First Free-Trade Minister.VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1999-- Canada Senator Pat Carney
Patricia "Pat" Carney, PC, (born May 26, 1935 in Shanghai, China) is a Canadian Senator and former Cabinet minister. will be the featured speaker at a Cross-Border Forum on Business Travel at Vancouver's Waterfront Centre Hotel on June 22. The event is being jointly sponsored by the Pacific Corridor Enterprise Council (PACE) and the Vancouver Board of Trade The Vancouver Board of Trade was established in 1887. It is a not-for-profit with the goal of developing Vancouver as a Pacific centre for trade, commerce and travel. It also provides input to both federal and provincial budgets. . Senator Carney was the Progressive Conservative trade minister when the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement was signed in October 1987. The agreement took effect on Jan. 1, 1989. The outspoken senator was one of the original negotiators of the forerunner to the North American Free Trade Agreement North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), accord establishing a free-trade zone in North America; it was signed in 1992 by Canada, Mexico, and the United States and took effect on Jan. 1, 1994. (NAFTA NAFTA in full North American Free Trade Agreement Trade pact signed by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico in 1992, which took effect in 1994. Inspired by the success of the European Community in reducing trade barriers among its members, NAFTA created the world's ). The conference will include several speakers who will identify ongoing problems facing business travelers across the Canada-U.S. border, including the potential of massive interference to Canadian business Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The magazine was renamed Canadian Business in 1933. people because of pending American legislation that would require each Canadian to register whenever he or she enters the United States and again on departure. Known as Section 110 of the 1996 Immigration Act, the check-in provisions have been placed on hold pending a study of their effects. Allan Skidmore, chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade and soon to become chairman of PACE, will address the forum on potential solutions to free-trade problems on both sides of the boder. Skidmore is president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Automotive Group TCG (Trusted Computing Group, Beaverton, OR, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org) The successor to the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance (TCPA), announced in 2003 by founding members AMD, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. International, which owns the worldwide franchise rights to Speedy Auto Glass and Novus auto glass repair. An avid free trader, Skidmore believes hindrances to business on either side of the boder must be reduced or removed. Other speakers will include Michael Chang, section chief of the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver; Mark Duncan, regional director general of Transport Canada; Blair Redlin, deputy minister of highways and transportation for the B.C. government, and John Winter, president of the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Registration begins at 9:45 a.m. at the Waterfront Centre Hotel in downtown Vancouver, and concludes after a luncheon program. Reservations are available at 604/641-1259 in Vancouver or 206/626-5474 in Seattle. |
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