FUTURE PLANS FOR THE
CANADA-POLAND CCT
Upcoming plans for the Canada-Poland
CCT include increasing communication
efforts. “We have five new members al-
ready active in our committees and they
are young and they are very committed to
work on it and they know about social me-
dia,” said
Œ
niegowski. The Chamber is now
on Facebook, Twitter (@canadapolandcct),
YouTube, and LinkedIn.
According to
Œ
niegowski, the organization
wants to also grow their membership to
about 400 members over the next couple
of years, which he believes is a realistic
plan.
More information can be found at www.
canada-poland.com.
FACTS ABOUT POLAND-
CANADA RELATIONS
• Canada and Poland enjoy excellent
political, social, and commercial rela-
tions with expanding military coopera-
tion and growing academic and cultural
ties.
• Canada was the first country to ratify
the Accession Protocols for Polish ac-
cession to the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
ganization (NATO).
• Poland is Canada’s largest market in
Eastern Europe, with bilateral merchan-
dise trade reaching over $1.9 billion in
2014 – $346 million in Canadian exports
and $1.6 billion in Canadian imports.
• Business on both sides of the Atlan-
tic will benefit from provisions in the
Canada-European Union Trade Agree-
ment that significantly improve market
access for services and investment.
Canada’s Market Access Plan (MAP), a
three-year plan under Canada’s Global
Markets Action Plan, for Poland will
help Canadian business benefit even
further from those opportunities.
(From June 2015 press release from
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit
JULY 2015
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