We may never know why the province chose to shutter what was a small investment for a large return, writes Kirk LaPointe
Trade missions are terrific for political optics, for the sense that our local businesses are scoring big internationally and for asserting that our government is there to hold our hands as more comes our way.
But there is at times a less flattering backstory to the public-facing political portrait that doesn’t quite paint the pretty picture. I wrote about these confounding closures in 2020. It still baffles me why common sense didn’t intervene to reverse course. We may never know why he chose to shutter what was a small investment for a large return – the province maintains the decision was sound – but the move left the province no direct, specific apparatus in the region our premier claims is a priority to lessen the links to China.
His staff were recruited for experience in industries like investment, mining, gas, information and communications, and life sciences, and from large firms like Hyundai, Samsung and LG. They were replaced by fewer and generally junior embassy staff.
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