Chamber News - June 2016 by Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce

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Businesses don’t know boundaries Our economy has changed. Increasingly, businesses operate beyond borders and boundaries when connecting with their customers. The internet and global shipping networks allow us to order a product from Germany and have it at our front doorstep within 24 hours. Fruit picked one day in the Okanagan is sold in a market in China on the next business day.

Michael Hind CEO Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce

But let’s bring this down to our local level. I would bet that most of us who live in the Tri- Cities shop in all of the three cities and don’t think twice about it. We don’t shop in one city or another because of boundaries or borders, but because of convenience, efficiency and relationships.

We should be asking our local governments to operate the same way that we live— without boundaries. No, this is not a call for amalgamation. Rather, it’s a call for increasing greater cooperation between the communities where it can work in the interest of local businesses and taxpayers. Our cities already operate cooperatively on some projects. For example, the inter-municipal mobile business license in the Tri-Cities is an initiative championed by the Chamber to have the three municipalities create a single license that would allow businesses operating in Coquitlam, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam to only pay for one license instead of three separate ones. There is now a push to extend this program to the entire Lower Mainland. Cities also partner on various service provisions with other municipalities in the region through Metro Vancouver—like water and sewer. But the Tri-Cities can stand to partner on more initiatives for the benefit of our local economy. We would like to see greater cooperation between the cities so we work together to grow our little corner of the Lower Mainland.

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The role of the Chamber is to serve our membership and support our local economy and we value our partnership with our local governments to help grow local business. But it would be easier to support local business if cities took a position that recognized the way businesses operate: without borders.

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