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New Markets Abroad
Changes in Immigration Patterns
Import Opportunities
Labour: A Variable Cost
Labour: A variable Cost Cnt'd
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true or false, the new markets created by trade spurred the development of export based companies& import based businesses, and created new jobs.
What is true
100
how has Canada been defined through history?
What is by the immigrants that choose to live here.
100
A multinational electronics corporation
What is Celestica
100
Why do countries export?
What is to reduce cost, and make more money
100
What types of countries do the outsourcing?
What is rich, developed countries.
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How did Canadian manufactures take advantage of the primary resources that they had access to?
What is taking primary resources such as minerals, fish and trees & added value to them by processing them before they were exported, thus creating jobs.
200
Where did people emmigrate from when they came to work the land in the 1800's?
What is Europe
200
A company that aims to recognize companies that have sucessfully gone international.
What is HSBC
200
Products have a blank attached to them
What is a stigma
200
An example of a company that uses or has used sweatshops.
What is Nike, Gap, etc
300
What is the American market?
What is over 300 million.
300
Where do many Canadians work presently?
What is internationally
300
Where does Celestica have headquarters other then Toronto?
What is Latin America, Europe, Asia, the US.
300
How does the federal and provincial government encourage companies to use cheap labour?
What is giving tax incentives and grants.
300
Why are Canadians not necessarily exploiting cheap labour workers.
What is * Not fair to compare wages in other countries * Countries might have lower cost of living * EX: Construction and insulation for houses might be in third world countries so they don’t require the same amount of money as Canadians do
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What were Canada's dominant industries?
What is steel and fish processing.
400
This term is associated with Canadians departing their homeland to find jobs elsewhere in the world.
What is brain drain.
400
Allows people to see products from around the world first hand.
What is traveling.
400
A cost that must be considered in the production cost of a product.
What is quality control, machinery, transportation, labour.
400
what are some of the eight aspects that a company must investigate before entering into a foreign market?
What is Wage rates, cost of living, market composition, consumer demand, sources of supply, shipping rates, tariff rates, political and economic data.
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How do Canadian companies make more money
What is developing marketing techniques based the demographics of these foreign markets.
500
What type of business people are being attracted to Canada?
What is Entrepreneurs.
500
Through what media and technology mediums are Canadians exposed to new products.
What is TV, radio, billboards, Internet, print-newspaper and magazine.
500
What do cheap labour workers preform?
What is * Factory jobs: assembly line, packaging, etc * Manual Labour: construction * Technical Support
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What are the reasons to resorting to countries with a lower standard of living.
What is * Can produce products cheaper * Labour costs are a significant part of spending so if you lower that then products can be made at a profit * If they have natural resources available there it reduces transportation costs * Less regulation so lower standards for work environment