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The Retired Persons Visa Issue
From the Canadian Snowbird Association Jim Sherb, First Vice-President
As I sit down to write my column for the summer edition of CSANews, CSA President Bob Slack and staff are just days away from a five-day visit to Washington, D.C. to continue our fight for a Retired Persons’ Visa. As regular readers are aware, this would potentially allow Canadians over the age of 55 to spend even more time each year in the United States. So how is this going to happen?
Obviously, a large component is to sit down with federal lawmakers in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate and make our case face to face. This is happening and let me assure you, we have a very strong case to make. The Canada-U.S. economic relationship is
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This would potentially allow Canadians over the age of 55 to spend even more
by far the largest in the world. Trade between Canada and the U.S. dwarfs that of any other bilateral trade relationship. Trade in goods and services between our two countries totalled $645 billion in 2010 - more than $1.7 billion in goods and services each day.
time each year in the United States.
Canadian tourists spent $5 billion last year alone, just in the states of Florida, Arizona, Texas and California. As we are aware, the United States is currently
in grave economic shape. On June 13, President Obama’s own Jobs and Competitiveness Council, comprised of 26 of the nation’s most influential CEOs, identified easing restrictions on visa processes as one of the most important things that the
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