26 - Wednesday, January 14, 1998 - North Shore News

NV college joins trade mission

CAPILANO College
President Greg Lee is
accompanying B.C.
Premier Glen Clark,
Prime Minister Jean
Chretien, and nearly
700 other Canadian
business officials on a
two-week trade mission
to Latin America.

From Jan . 10 to 23, Team
Canada 199 8 will visit
Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and
Chile, where it hopes to
strengthen trade links.
Stacey Wootten, a firs t-year
student in the Asia Pacific
Management
Cooperative
Program (APMCP), is also
maki ng the journey south at

the encouragement of the federal government.
"Capilano College was
invited to join the trade mission because it is in the
process of initiating a Latin
American
Management
Program (LAMP)," said 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."
Canadian students with
un iversity degrees wi ll be
training through LAMP to
assume
professional and

as well.
Chile was B.C.'s 20th
Team Canada tours throughout members
APMCP student Wootten largest international export
eventually like to work destination in 1996, accountLatin America for two weeks would
in Latin America. This trip ing for $61 million of the
development posltlons in
Latin America . In turn, managers and graduate students
from Latin America who want
to establish linkages wi th
Canada and Southeast Asia
will participate in the program.
As part of Team Canada,
Capilano College will be seeking partnerships to build Latin
American connections. Said
Potts, "Another major benefit
of having our college president join the Team Canada
mission is the number of
Canadian business and educational contacts he will make

even before he arrives in Latin
America. The plane will 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 connection made
opens the door to developing
new relationships for international exchange - not only
for students, but for faculty

will offer her first-hand experience in four Latin American
countries.
Each year B.C.'s exports to
the Latin American region
total over $350 million.
Brazil, B.C. 's 15th most
important trade partner in
1996, took $133 million
worth of the province's
exports. This represented 10%
of Canada's total exports to
the South American country.

province's exports. B.C.
accounts for 15% of total
Canadian exports to Chile.
Mexico is B.C.'s 23rd
largest global export destination, accounting for $49 mil lion in 1996.
Argentina accounted for
$9 million of B.C. exports in
1996. Argentina ranked 4 1st
amongst the province's international trade part ners in
1996.