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Capilano College joins trade
mission to South America

apilano College president, Greg

Lee, is accompanying B.C.
premier, Glen Clark, and nearly 700
other Canadian business officials on a
two-week trade mission to Latin
America.

From January 10 to 23, Team
Canada 1998 will visit Mexico, Brazil,
Argentina and Chile, where it hopes to
strengthen trade and business links.

Stacey Wootten, a first year student
in the Asia Pacific Management
Cooperative Program, is also making
the journey south at the encouragement
of the federal government. She would
eventually like to work in Latin
America and this trip will offer her
first-hand experience in four Latin
American countries. Both Greg and
Stacey’s expenses are being supported
by non-based funds that came to the
College through the Canadian
International Development Agency.

“Capilano College was invited to
join the trade mission because it is in
the process of initiating a Latin
American Management Program
(LAMP),” says John Potts, dean of
International Programs at Capilano
College. “This program is being
structured after the College’s highly-
successful Asia Pacific Management
Cooperative Program, which currently
has 310 alumni working in 14 Asian
countries.”

Young Canadians with university
degrees will be training through LAMP
to assume professional and
development positions in Latin
America. In tur, managers and
graduate students from Latin America

who want to establish linkages with
Canada and South East Asia will
participate in the program. As part of
Team Canada, Capilano College will be
seeking partnerships to build Latin
American connections.

“Another major benefit of having our
College president join the Team Canada
mission,” John adds, “is the number of
Canadian business and educational
contacts he will make even before he
arrives in Latin America. The plane will

College
president Greg
Lee (left) is part
of Team
Canada’s trade
mission to Latin
America. He is
joined by
APMCP student
Stacey Wootten.

be full of people who are already
doing business in those countries.”

While the immediate purpose of
the trip is related to international
projects and LAMP, each association
made opens the door to developing
new relationships for international
exchange — not only for students,
but for faculty members as well.

Look for an update on Greg and
Stacey’s trip in a future issue of the
Informer.

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Vol. XX No. 1
January 21/98