Forum Chair:
David I. Matheson QC
Forum Co-Chairs:
Lenore Gibson National Chair, HKCBA
Frankie Lee President, HKCBA Edmonton
Honourary Chairs:
Maureen Siu Director, HKETO Canada
John Mah Q.C. HKCBA Honourary Life Member Edmonton
Honourary Advisors:
Barry Macdonald Chair, Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide Immediate Past National Chair, HKCBA
Robert J. Armstrong President SCL - Supply Chain & Logistics Association Canada; Armstrong Trade & Logistics Advisory Services
Organizing Committee: (Edmonton)
Frankie Lee President, HKCBA Edmonton
Fred Greaves, Director Immediate Past President HKCBA Edmonton Section
Terry Cavanaugh, Director HKCBA Edmonton Section
Neil Kaarsemaker Edmonton Economic Development Corp Director, HKCBA Edmonton
David Tam, Director HKCBA Edmonton Section
Richard Wong, Director HKCBA Edmonton Section
Stephen Lau Director & Secretary HKCBA Edmonton Section
Audrey Kwan President, HKCBA Calgary
Alexandria Sham Vice President, HKCBA Calgary
Kelly Xu Province of Alberta Ministry of Int'l, Intergovernmental & Aboriginal Relations - Int'l Offices and Trade
Sam Young HKCBA National Director & Treasurer
Shirley Kwan Executive Director, HKCBA Edmonton
Organizing Committee: (National)
Bill Lau President, HKCBA Vancouver
Audrey Kwan President, HKCBA Calgary
Dave Spiers President, HKCBA Winnipeg
Carmel Tse HKCBA Representative, London (Ontario)
Frank Monteiro President, HKCBA Toronto
Alison Nankivell President, HKCBA Ottawa
Mati Pouliot President, HKCBA Montreal
Kam Chung President, HKCBA Halifax
Mitch Kowalski National Vice Chair HKCBA
Peter Yeung National Director HKCBA
Dorothy Jean Mar National Director HKCBA
Andrew Yui Honourary Director, HKCBA
Y C Chan Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office Toronto
Stephen Siu Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office Toronto
Shirley Wong Invest Hong Kong
Grace Xin Executive Director, HKCBA National
Samantha Moulsdale Executive Director, HKCBA Toronto
Joyce Chung Executive Director, HKCBA Vancouver
Ian R. Marshall Speaker Liaison & Coordination
Dale Oswald Trade Show Management
Zoheir Hasanbhai WebMaster
Forum Management:
Robert Brown CEO
Tel: (416) 366-2642 Fax: (416) 366-1569 Email: canhkforum08@hkcba.com bob@hkcba.com

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Canada's Smart Link in China is Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Advantage

Hong Kong - Asia's business, outward processing and communications hub

Conveniently located in the heart of Asia, foreign direct investment into Hong Kong assures optimal access to Asia from a world-class regional centre. Hong Kong, the world's freest economy, boasts a highly skilled workforce operating in fair and friendly business environment with low taxes and excellent infrastructure.

Hong Kong also provides the service platform through which inward investors can reap the benefits of the manufacturing powerhouse of the world - the Greater Pearl River Delta. New advantages like CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement) strengthen Hong Kong's appeal as the gateway to and from the Mainland of China.

Hong Kong is blessed with an invaluable natural resource: its geographical location. Flanking the mouth of the Pearl River Delta (PRD), Hong Kong is perfectly situated for trade with Mainland China; the whole country is our natural hinterland.

For more than a century and a half, Hong Kong has served as the gateway to Mainland China. There is nowhere better than Hong Kong to obtain the expertise, information and facilities needed to tap into the immense Mainland Chinese market.

China's entry to the World Trade Organisation and development of increasingly competitive industries has set the stage for even greater economic expansion.

The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), which took effect at the beginning of 2004, provides Hong Kong with additional and exclusive Mainland market access benefits.

The marriage of Hong Kong's world class financial, marketing and technical expertise and sophisticated infrastructure with the mainland's rapidly developing manufacturing and services base has created a win-win situation. Mainland China is now Hong Kong's largest trading partner. Thousands of international companies involved in China trade have chosen to establish their beachhead in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is the obvious spring board into the Mainland market

More Information at these Hong Kong Links

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government

Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office (Toronto) Hong Kong Government Information Center Policy Bureaux and Government Departments

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

 Invest Hong Kong