Int'l Business Council: Doing Business with Canada

"Doing Business with Canada"

 Join us for this informative event where attendees will learn about business opportunities in Canada for any size business. 

Agenda

10:00 AM- 11:30 AM
U.S.-Canada Trade Forum
“Market Opportunities & Challenges”
Orientation Theater
 
11:30-1:00 pm
Luncheon: Goldsmith Room



Luncheon Keynote Speaker is Louise Blais, Canada’s Consul General in Atlanta, representing Canada in six states in the Southeast: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Louise Blais began her professional career at Interpol and the National Archives of Canada before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1996.  She has served abroad as Counsellor at the Embassy in Washington and Tokyo and as Minister-Counsellor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Paris.  In Ottawa, she has held the position of Director of the Public Diplomacy Division and Executive Director of the Rotational Staff Division before being appointed Consul General of Canada in Atlanta.
 
Louise Blais has served on numerous boards including the Helen Hayes Awards, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington and the Tokyo International Film Festival. She is also an alum of the Herbert Quandt Foundation’s Trans-Atlantic and World Young Leaders Forum (2001, 2002, and 2005).
 
Louise Blais holds a B.A. from McGill University.  She is married and has two sons.

QUICK FACTS 

• The Memphis Metro's top exporting country is Canada. In 2014, the Memphis Metro exported $1.7 billion in products to Canada.
• Over 34% of Tennessee's exports to Canada were transportation equipment.
• Canada's major industries include transportation equipment, chemicals, processed and unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper products, fish products petroleum and natural gas.
• There are 22 Canadian firms in the Memphis Metro that employ over 1,600 people. 

 

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