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Back to Canada … Thanks to Invest Ottawa
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Canadian mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Story Page 2.
Code Cubitt is a Managing Partner at Mistral Venture Partners, a new venture capital firm based in Ottawa. After 15 years living in the United States, Code and his wife Janet agreed it was time to move their family back to Canada, both to start Mistral and to return to Canada’s unique culture and lifestyle benefits. “After Living in the US for so many years, we both felt it was important for our children to experience Canada’s unique culture. It’s subtly different from the US in a number of important ways.” With their two sons, Aethan (11) and Graeme (7), Code and Janet settled in the Code Cubitt Glebe and immediately got involved with Ottawa winter activities—skating on the canal and skiing at the nearby hills. Born in 1971 in London Ontario, Code spent his formative years in Ontario and Alberta. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Before graduating, Code also started and sold several small companies that served as an influential introduction to the entrepreneurial life has embraced. Continued on page 14
Major changes in the proposed Canada India US immigration bill Relations United States
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he U.S. Senate passed a bill that would overhaul the immigration system and provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already living in the U.S. It has also comprehensively addressed number of issues including border security, high and low-skilled workers, family immigration and employment verification. Attention now shifts to the House of Representatives, controlled by the Republicans House Speaker John Boehner stated in a news conference that the House would be drafting its own legislation with an emphasis on border security rather than accept
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the Senate bill. However, President Obama says he has urged both House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to find a way to pass a bill. He says a sweeping immigration measure that cleared the Senate with a large bipartisan majority is a “sound framework’’ that has been debated for weeks A look at major provisions of the Senate immigration bill: Border Security The bill sets out a series of requirements that must be achieved over 10 years before anyone here illegally can obtain a permanent resident green card. These include: 1. Roughly doubling the number of Border Patrol agents stationed along the U.S.-Mexico border, to at least 38,405. 2. Completing 700 miles of pedestrian fencing along the border, which would require approximately 350 new miles of fencing. 3. Installing a host of new security measures and technologies in specified locations along the border, including specific numbers of surveillance tow-
ers, camera systems, ground sensors, radiation detectors, mobile surveillance systems, drones, helicopters, airborne radar systems, planes and ships. 4. Implementing a system for all employers to verify electronically their workers’ legal status. 5. Setting up a new electronic system to track people leaving the nation’s airports and seaports. The border security improvements are designed to achieve 100 per cent surveillance of the border with Mexico and ensure that 90 per cent of would-be crossers are caught or turned back. If the goals of a 90 per cent effectiveness rate and continuous surveillance on the border are not met within five years, a Southern Border Security Commission made up of border-state governors and others would determine how to achieve them. Border security spending in the bill totals around $46 billion.
H.E. Narinder Chauhan
Path to Citizenship The estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally could obtain “registered provisional immigrant status” six months after enactment of the bill as long as:
I arrived in Canada in August 2008 and we tasted our first success when Canada, in a reversal of its policy, agreed to support India at the IAEA and the NSG for international civil nuclear cooperation. This was also the time Canada was at the height of its military involvement in Afghanistan, which gave Canada a refreshingly new perspective of India and its role in the region. By this time Canada had also begun losing its traditional markets and India with its growing middle class had become a trade priority. Both sides moved in fast to conclude the necessary agreements, exchange high-level visits and lead trade missions. Bilaterally, India and Canada have about 30 agreements and MOUs, most of which have been concluded over the past five years. We are currently negotiating Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the Investment Protection Agreement and the Audio-Visual co-Production Treaty. We have already signed the Social Security Agreement, which will facilitate the movement of professionals. Services is a sector of aggressive interest to India under the CEPA which becomes even more important given that India will stand graduated out of Canada’s Generalised Scheme of Tariff Preferences by January 2015. India is also offering facilities to the Canadian long term funds, including pension funds and Teachers Funds to invest in India’s Infrastructure Debt Financing. There have been some positive developments here.
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