{"id":995,"date":"2014-11-06T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indocanadianstudies\/?p=995"},"modified":"2014-11-06T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:52:35","slug":"canadas-international-trade-minister-ed-fast-visits-ufv-india-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2014\/11\/06\/canadas-international-trade-minister-ed-fast-visits-ufv-india-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s International Trade Minister Ed Fast visits UFV India campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(As seen on UFV Today)<\/p>\n

On October 17th, University of the Fraser Valley’s President Mark Evered welcomed Canada\u2019s Minister of International Trade and MP for Abbotsford\u00a0Ed Fast to UFV\u2019s campus in Chandigarh, India.<\/p>\n

Fast, along with Canada\u2019s Minister of National Revenue Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Canada\u2019s Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice Bob Dechert, Consul General of Canada in Chandigarh, Dr. Rajani Alexander, and incoming High Commissioner of Canada in India Nadir Patel toured UFV\u2019s campus and met with students.<\/p>\n

The group then joined an audience of 200 high school students and parents to watch the final round of QBiz Business Quiz competition, where the\u00a0six top high school teams out of 160 competitors from across northern India\u00a0battled\u00a0for top honours.<\/p>\n

At the end of the competition, Fast congratulated the teams, and hosted a bonus \u2018Canada round\u2019 quiz for the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada has recently adopted its first ever international education strategy,\u201d Fast said. \u201cThe goal of that strategy is to double, over the next 10\u00a0years, the number of students that come from all around the world to study in Canada. Why is this important to India, and to the state of Punab, and Chandigarh? Because India is now the second largest source of foreign students coming to Canada, just behind China.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe welcome students from all over the world, including India. [Right now] there are close to 32,000 Indian students studying in Canada. [Some are] planning to come back to\u00a0India to invest their skills in their home country, and some will stay in Canada, building our economy and building bridges of relationships between Canada and India.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen students come from abroad to study in Canada\u2026 they become Canada\u2019s best ambassadors. I encourage you to explore a Canadian education. Canada has a reputation for having the best education in the world\u2026 Look no further than Canada, look no further than SD College and University of the Fraser Valley who are offering you an opportunity to get a head start here.\u201d<\/p>\n

UFV\u2019s India campus is a partnership with Sanatan Dharma College Chandigarh (SDCC)<\/a>, an affiliate of Panjab University<\/a>, for the delivery of a UFV\u2019s Canadian\u00a0Bachelor of Business Administration<\/a>\u00a0program.\u00a0The 105 students can complete all four years in Chandigarh, or they can choose to\u00a0transfer to UFV Canada for their third and fourth year.<\/p>\n

Fast\u2019s visit to UFV India was part of his\u00a0six-day, three-city trade mission to India.\u00a0It coincided with BC Premier Christy Clark\u2019s trade mission to India, which visited UFV\u2019s India campus on October 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                        (As seen on UFV Today) On October 17th, University of the Fraser Valley’s President Mark Evered welcomed Canada\u2019s Minister of International Trade and MP for Abbotsford\u00a0Ed Fast to UFV\u2019s campus in Chandigarh, India. Fast, along with Canada\u2019s Minister of National Revenue Kerry-Lynne Findlay, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}