Province grapples with ongoing emergency

LaPointe interviewed Ravi Kahlon, the minister for jobs, economic recovery and innovation, and George Chow, minister of state for trade about the export market environment and some of the strategies in responding to the pandemic and planning for the post-pandemic world. According to Chow he thinks i...

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Published in:Business in Vancouver 2021-02 (1634), p.12
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business conditions
Chow, George
COVID-19
Diversification
Economic recovery
Exports
International trade
Kahlon, Ravi
Pandemics
Provinces
Public officials
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Summary:LaPointe interviewed Ravi Kahlon, the minister for jobs, economic recovery and innovation, and George Chow, minister of state for trade about the export market environment and some of the strategies in responding to the pandemic and planning for the post-pandemic world. According to Chow he thinks it will change their strategy going forward. But they also changed their strategy in how they help businesses do virtual online assistance and help business to navigate provincial and federal help for the COVID strategies that both governments have put out. And this is what they are primarily focused on. And they also will be focusing on a trade diversification strategy, because now the world is going to be different. Kahlon added that they're fortunate here in BC. He knows that a lot of businesses are still struggling. He means, his family ran a restaurant for a decade over here, and they didn't have to deal with pandemic; it was hard enough.
ISSN:0849-5017