Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland to...

Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland to exhibit Summit

Mary Harney, TD Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and craft for the Republic of Ireland, has been confirmed as lead speaker for the opening session of BC Business Summit 2000 November 18 -19 at the Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina conversation Centre in Vancouver.

An prefered member of the Irish House of Representatives since 1981 M Harney leads the Progressive Democratic party that generally forms a coalition government in Ireland. She has been central to the proces of economic change and renewal that has reshaped Ireland athwart the past decade, and made the `Celtic Tiger' the fastest growing economy in the European Union and the Western world.

In a freshs release, the Business Summit said that BC could learn from the Irish experience, where tax reform, labour-management cooperation and efforts to create an attractive climate for business investment has transformed the two the economy and the quality of life for 37 million Irish citizens.

Additional confirmed speakers for BC Business Summit 2000 include former Olympic ski champion and British Columbia native Nancy Greene Raine. M Greene Raine will discuss business and its challenges, her commitment to the province, and her belief in the hereafter potential of BC. Other speakers include David Baxter, Executive Director of the Urban events to comes Institute, Darrell Bricker, President and COO Canadian Public Affairs Practice at the Angus Reid dispose and leaders from the replete spectrum of British Columbia's business community

The Summit proces began in November 1998 when more than 800 business leaders attended the firstever BC Business Summit conversation While the first Summit marked occurrence focused on the province's economic challenges and in succession identifying the policy changes necessary for economic renewal, BC Business Summit 2000 will focus forward creating a common vision for the province's economic coming events

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