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Showing posts with label Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Canadian Chamber Head Weighs in on Investors after Samal Kidnapping


DAVAO CITY -- The abduction last September of four people -- two of whom are Canadians -- in the Island Garden City of Samal has affected business prospects in the region and how the case will be resolved will be crucial to investor confidence, the head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (CanCham) said.

Canadian PM-Elect Justin S. Trudeau -- AFP
“The recent kidnapping has been given fairly wide publicity in Canada and has temporarily affected business,” CanCham President Julian H. Payne said in an interview during a recent visit to the city.

The Government of Canada, on its Web site updated Oct. 27, has warned its nationals to exercise a high degree of caution when traveling to the Philippines and advised against “all travel to the Mindanao Region, excluding urban areas of Davao City.”

The advisory applies to the Davao Region provinces of Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte, which covers Samal.

“Those [Canadians] already doing business in the area would not be affected because while they know there are some risks, the existing businesses know how to cope,” Mr. Payne said.

Among the biggest Canadian companies operating in the Philippines are those in the mining and insurance industries.

But Mr. Payne said those who are still in the prospective stage may have second thoughts and are likely to postpone their plans following the advisory.

“There is a temporary effect but in the long term, it will all depend on how the kidnapping is resolved,” he said.

A video of the kidnap victims uploaded on YouTube last month is still being validated by the Special Investigation Task Group Ocean View.

Supt. Antonio E. Rivera, spokesperson of the Davao Police Regional Office, said they submitted the copy of the video to the Manila headquarters since the local office does not have the equipment for verification.

The 2:22-minute clip, which was posted on YouTube on Oct. 13, showed the two Canadians and the Norwegian manager of the Holiday Oceanview Marina where they were kidnapped, together with a Filipina hostage presumed to be a partner of one of the kidnapped Canadians.

They were surrounded by eight heavily armed men with the recognizable black flag of the terrorist group ISIS behind them.

Canada’s advisory is significant in the context of the Philippines’ hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit this month.

Canadian Prime Minister-Elect Justin Trudeau is among the leaders of APEC’s member-economies scheduled to arrive in Manila for the Nov. 18-19 summit.

Mr. Trudeau, who is due to be sworn in on Wednesday after winning in Canada’s Oct. 19 legislative elections, will also attend UN climate talks in Paris on Nov. 30 where the Philippines is also a participant. -- with reports by AFP