CERBA Quarterly News (Winter – Spring 2011) 3 Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association (CERBA) Association d'affaires Canada Russie Eurasie (ACCRE) Канадская деловая ассоциация в России и Евразии (СЕРБА) www.cerbanet.org CERBA Offices International: MOSCOW CHAPTER MONTREAL/OTTAWA CHAPTER Elena Settles – Regional Director Brendan Scully – Regional Director Tel: 7 (495) 7621240 Tel: 1 (514) 9753347 Fax: 7 (495) 9374763 Fax: 1 (514) 3714605 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CALGARY CHAPTER VANCOUVER CHAPTER Frank Kense – Regional Director Tatyana Domilovskaya – Regional Director Tel: 1 (403) 2184164 Cell: 1 (604) 720 2905 Fax: 1 (403) 2188727 Landline: 1 (604) 464 2900 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Left to right: Robert Johnston (Cannon Design, Victoria), Mikhael TORONTO CHAPTER ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN CHAPTER Kapirulin (Centre for Construction Technologies Transfer «Omega», Katherine Balabanova – Regional Director Irina Tabarina – Regional Director Krasnodar/Sochi),Tatiana Domilovskaya (CERBAVancouver), Tel: 1 (416) 3602299 Tel: +7 (727) 3112480 James Bons (Cannon Design, Boston). After the first tour Fax: 1 (416) 3608425 Fax: +7 (727) 3112489 of negotriations on the Olympic Oval in Sochi. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CERBA Boards of Directors: NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Paul Drager – Macleod Dixon Transportation Division Petroleum Chairman Interim John Wither – EDC Ron Bozzer – RLB, Managing Partner Paul Clarke – Uranium One Nathan Hunt – Ronald A. Chisholm Mietka Zieba – CMHC Roger Richer – VP and Counsellor, Yerzhan Kumarov – Macleod Dixon International B2Gold Natalia Kurkchi – Antal Russia Chairman Emeritus TORONTO BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bryan Hughes – EDC, Regional Director Keith Gaebel – Ernst & Young Piers Cumberlege Chairman Robert Johnston – Principal, Cannon David Mallette – Embassy Directors Cristian Mandachescu – Scotiabank Design Architects of Canada Honorable J. Trevor Eyton ViceChair Oleg Tchoubarov – President, Sea James Clark – Pricewater Boris Aryev – Stans Energy Martha Harrison – Heenan Blaikie LLP Green Enterprises houseCoopers Renee Chernecki – Canadian Directors Rod Goy – Dean, British Columbia Banat Ashkenova – Heenan Blaikie Petroleum Training Institute Boris Aryev – Stans Energy Institute of Technology, Zouheir Chebl – SNCLavalin Marina Dessiatkina – Trade Commission School of Construction International of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) CERBA News Editor: Paul Drager – Macleod Dixon LLP Vadym Kozub – Export Trader ALMATY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Olga Mazurova Piotr Dutkiewicz – Carleton University Yury Manukhov – Canadian Gateway / Chairman Photos by: Elena Settles, Sandy Ferguson – BC Bioenergy YYZ Travel Al Shpyth – Cameco Kazakhstan Olga Mazurova, Frank Kense, Network Michelle Moore – West Coast Directors Katherine Balabanova, Tataiana Peter Harder – Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP Immigration Consultants George Mirtskhulava – Tethys Domilovskaya, Irina Tabarina John Place – Heenan Blaikie LLP Vitaly Paroshyn – Ministry of Economic Neil Withers – Silkroutefinancial Development and Trade (Ontario) James Crossland – Kinross Alina Pekarsky – Schulich School of Cristian Mandachescu – Bank of Nova Business In This Issue: Scotia Alexander Shipilov – TD Bank Page 3 Martha Harrison – Heenan Blaikie LLP. Iuri Sitchinava – Ronald A. Chisholm Ltd. Content Lou Naumovski – Kinross (Observer) MarieLise Gauthier – Bombardier MONTREAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Page 4 (Observer) Chairman CERBA Chairman's address Zouheir Chebl – SNC Lavalin International Page 5 MOSCOW BOARD OF DIRECTORS Directors Chairman Pierre D'Avignon – Scotiabank Ralph Lysyshyn, ExAmbassador to Russia address Nathan Hunt, Ronald A. Chisholm Diane Dube – EDC Page 6 International Andrei Ivanov – MDA Cannon Design: The journey continues Directors Andre L'Ecuyer – Rabaska Anatoly Andriash – Macleod Dixon LLP Redouane Mekideche – DFAIT Page 7 Sergey Lobov – Fedorovo Resources / Bertrand Millot – Cordiant Montreal Charity Auction Barrick Gold Edouard Namts – WE Consulting Inc. Lou Naumovski – Kinross Gold MarieAndree Bernard – MDEIE, Page 89 Carol Patterson – Baker & McKenzie Quebec Government Welcome new Almaty and Vancouver Chapters' members (observer) MarieLise Gauthier – Bombardier John Campbell – Page 10 PricewaterhouseCoopers (observer) OTTAWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Welcome new Toronto members Madina Assylbekova – Gowlings Intl. Inc. Chairman Page 11 Neil Withers – SilkRoute Financial Peter Harder – Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP Albacor opens in Russia Alex Shifrin – The Creative Factory Directors Luc Jones – Antal International Christopher Westdal – Silver Bear Page 12 Ron Lewin – TerraLink Andre Asselin – CMHC PDAC, Katherine Balabanova, Regional Director Klaus Buttner – Embassy of Canada Robert Blackburn – SNCLavalin (observer) Piotr Dutkiewicz – Carleton University Page 13 David Gray – Agriteam Canada Welcome new Moscow Chapter member CALGARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS John Kur – DFAIT Chairman George Haynal – Bombardier Page 14 Hans Gjerdrum – KUDU Industries Nicolas Temnikov – QIT Rio Tinto CERBA Christmas Directors Dave Pryce – RIM Page 1518 Yerlan Aubakirov – Deloitte Laurent Auger – Alberta International VANCOUVER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Looking Back Intergovernmental Relations Chairman Page 19 Richard Ball – FSI International Sandy Ferguson – Marketing Director, Lotte Hotel – a new Moscow Chapter member Thank you to Drofa printing house for printing the WinterSpring 2011 newsletter for CERBA! Shawn Beamish – Canadian Mat Systems BC Biotech Network Renee Chernicki – Canadian Petroleum Directors Page 20 Training Institute Rainer Ibowski – VP SNC Lavalin, Thank you to CERBA sponsors 4 CERBA Quarterly News (Winter – Spring 2011) CERBA Quarterly News (Winter – Spring 2011) 5 FAREWELL WORD invest ignificantly in Canada (eg Magna progress Russia has made along the road Government which is reflected, among CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE and Buhler Tractor); towards being an open, well regulated other ways, by their adoption of Canada's FROM AMBASSADOR • Canadian engineering firms such as market, it is not there yet. Doing business public audit practices. make himself accessible; we look forward to a fruitful relationship during his tenure in Moscow. RALPH LYSYSHYN Hatch and SNCLavalin set up productive in Russia remains different. The bilateral As we often repeat, CERBA's key task is to new partnerships; relationship between countries still plays a For business this means that it too must provide relevant and useful information/activities • Canadian provinces led by Alberta, big role in Trade. seek to supplement its normal business to its members, i.e. to bring value to a member Quebec and Newfoundland have begun to practices with a strong commitment to the ship. To that end a survey of Sustaining be even more active in promoting trade We have options. We can, if we want, IEC process (and, I would add, to CERBA Members was conducted in the fall of 2010 to determine what flagship event could best con with Russia; spend our energies in haranguing and lec as the vehicle for this activity.) For too long tribute to that goal. While CERBA will continue to • The vast potential for Northern Co turing Russia on its failures, or we can seek I have felt Canadian business to be support the biannual meeting of the IEC, a operation – across many sectors became to devise case specific «workarounds». I ambivalent about the IEC process. It is an standalone investment conference will give us clearer than it ever was; am convinced that the first route gets us anachronism to companies that are found an opportunity to showcase our talents and con • We discovered exciting new opportu nowhere. The second does nothing to ad ed on free market principles and it seems centrate on the issues most important to nities in Space; and, perhaps most signifi investors today: transparency, the rule of law, dress the systemic weaknesses that per to encourage a relationship with both the and corporate governance in today's Russia. It cantly, sist in Russia and requires that Canadian Russian and Canadian political leadership will also allow CERBA members to relate their • The list of «trade irritants» with political businessmen be either very lucky or that that many regard as either inappropriate corporate experience in Russia and, hopefully, overtones that had to be raised at every they become directly or indirectly complic or dangerous or both. I sympathise but at provide a more balanced assessment of the senior meeting effectively disappeared. it in the serious problems that plague the the same time I believe that with both care market potential to investors. Russian market place. and creativity the risks can be minimized. Nathan Hunt On the political front, it is important to note that 2011 is an election year in Russia with par These achievements reflect both the Welcome to new challenges in the New Year! liamentary elections to be held in December and positive evolution of the Russian business Ensuring that in the future we will be able to That is where CERBA comes in. I have CERBA's National Board of Directors has been presidential elections following in March 2012. markets and the growing sophistication of take full advantage of the possibilities that are nothing but admiration for the various especially active over the past three months Russia's policy direction for the next four years Ralph Lysyshyn the Canadian business community active there for us will require a different approach to CERBA staff teams and for what they have working on a number