Business immigration summit next week
Conference Board of Canada summit to explore business immigration in Canada
A new summit by the Conference Board of Canada will be discussing why intake to Canada’s federal business immigration program is low and why it’s struggled over the past 40 years. The Entrepreneur & Investor Immigration Summit 2018, to be held on November 27-28, in Ottawa, will look at what some provinces are doing to bring in investment to see how Canada as a whole can become the global leader in benefiting from business immigrants.
“Canada is well positioned to learn from its 40 years of business immigration experience to help grow its economy. In fact, there is tremendous opportunity for business immigrants to contribute to Canada’s economic development agenda in areas such as international trade, FDI attraction, infrastructure, innovation, affordable housing, business succession planning, and the development of small and rural communities,” according to the Conference Board.
Conference Board summit on business immigration
Through a series of speakers and plenary sessions, the main objectives of the summit are to explore how business immigration can help advance Canada’s economic development agenda, as well as identify how to improve Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial business immigration programs.
Specific topics that will be explored as part of this discussion will include Canada’s federal, provincial/territorial and municipal economic growth agenda, how to attract and retain business immigrants in both large and small communities, a look at global business immigration issues, and public policy concerns such as fraud and high real estate prices in Vancouver and Toronto.
The summit will provide an opportunity for officials from government, business, immigration law and consulting, immigrant-serving organizations and education to network and learn from each other so that they can work toward shared objectives.
The Conference Board will then include these recommendations in a report to be released publicly in early 2019.
Attend the Entrepreneur & Investor Immigration Summit
Learn more about and register for the Entrepreneur & Investor Immigration Summit 2018 here.
With CAPIC as the summit’s strategic partner, regulated Canadian immigration consultants are eligible to receive up to 10.5 CPD credit hours by attending this Summit. Please stay tuned for more details on CPD eligibility for immigration lawyers.
Other sponsors of the event include Canadian Immigrant, Fragomen Canada, SuccessionMatching, Arton Capital, AURAY Capital, Beijing East J & P Star Consulting Co., Ltd. and Seligman Law.