Iranians Look to Invest in Island - Sunbelt Business Brokers BC

Article in the Nanaimo News Bulletin on Tuesday March 6:

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The Iranians are Back for More!

Another delegation of Iranian Investors hits the Island to explore for business opportunities.

Nanaimo, BC (March, 2010) – Sunbelt Business Brokers BC, Nanaimo, BC a global provider of business brokerage services, announced today that they will be accompanying another group of 10 Iranian investors to several Vancouver Island businesses for sale. The group of 10 Iranian investors and their spouses will be visiting the Island as part of the British Columbia Investment Orientation Tour, especially designed to show investors what the province of British Columbia has to offer.

Foreign Investment in Canada – good or bad?

Foreign Investment in Canada – good or bad?

By Renee Bueckert, February 2010

Some of us fear the unknown. More accurately, most of us fear what we don’t understand or perhaps what we think we do. Of course, this holds true in many aspects of our lives and often, it is the power of knowledge that frees us from our apprehensions. Thus is true when we embark on the topic of foreign investment into Canada, a topic that can conjure up a multiplicity of thoughts and reactions. For some, these words bring hope and optimism for renewed economic vigor, increased productivity and strong levels of employment; for others these words ring of patriotic protectionism, both admirable and yet polarized perspectives of a healthy economy. Just as it was when we discovered the earth was round, not flat – the facts remained regardless of how anyone really felt about it: we couldn’t fall off the planet if we walked too far in any direction.