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Fast-paced images of Canadian industry and trade:

container ships, freight trains, busy pacific sea ports, multi-cultural mix of business people boarding an aircraft, transport trucks rolling down modern highways

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Canada's Pacific Gateway: Your Connection to Opportunity

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Minerals, coal and wheat being loaded into trains and ships...

Cars and containers being off-loaded from ships...

An assembly line of high tech communications equipment, like a "Blackberry"...

More Than 2/3 of the GDP

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(A male, well-informed, sincere)

Canada is a trading nation.

The import and export of consumer goods, raw materials, and natural resources drives Canada's economy, making up more than two-thirds of the country's gross domestic product.

Cargo being unloaded from aircraft...

National Priority

Transport trucks pulling away from loading bays and rolling down modern highways

Moving goods in and out of the country quickly and efficiently is a national priority.

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World Class Network

A map illustrates the proximity of Asia to Canada's west coast. Moving streams show the movement of travel (air and sea routes) between Asia and western Canada.

Narrator (v.o.)

Canada's Pacific Gateway and its corridor is a world-class transportation network that connects North America and the booming Asia-Pacific market.

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Quick and Efficient

Aerial scenes of railroad terminals, international airports, and the ports of Metro Vancouver and Prince Rupert

It includes roads, transcontinental rail systems, modern international airports, and two deep-water entry and exit points for marine cargo.

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A map showing the rail connections from BC's ports, across Canada and south to Chicago and Memphis

It's a powerful transportation and logistics system that moves goods quickly and efficiently to and from North America.

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A sped-up sequence of a ship loading at a recognizably Asian port, at sea in the Pacific, sailing into a BC port with the Coastal Mountains in the background, and containers travelling on trains

Fast and Reliable

Canada is geographically positioned to prosper from increased trade between North America and the rapidly growing Asian economies of China, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Businesses in North America and Asia who choose Canada's Pacific Gateway will benefit from faster, more reliable, and direct transit to their markets.

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Employees walking into government office buildings, meeting around boardroom tables…

A crane operator moving shipping containers…

Trade Opportunities

controllers monitoring activities at a large railway yard, etc

Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative combines infrastructure, policy, governance and operational issues into an integrated, multi-modal, public-private strategy.

The goal: to facilitate and capitalize on new and growing trading opportunities.

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Canadians at work in manufacturing, shipping, and business

Environmentally Sustainable

Seamless Network

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Canada is well equipped to meet the demands of exporters and importers for reliable, efficient, and environmentally sustainable transportation systems.

The Government of Canada is bringing together people and policies to transform investments into a seamless transportation network and supply chain...

...creating economic opportunities for Canada and the world.

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Safe and Secure

Workers unloading container ships and cargo aircraft at western-Canada seaports and airports, a transport truck passing through a border station.

Canada boasts one of the world's safest and most secure transportation systems with highly-effective programs for processing trans-border shipments.

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Road work in western Canada, construction sites at port facilities, track laying, new highways and bridges

Ongoing upgrades to marine ports, railroads, and highways ensure swift movement of merchandise to inland and multimodal transportation hubs.

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People working together in business and construction environments

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Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative is an unprecedented collaboration of public and private sectors

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A map of shipping routes from Asia to the ports of Prince Rupert and Metro Vancouver

It takes full advantage of Canada's strategic location at the crossroads of the North American marketplace and the expanding economies of Asia…

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Canada's Pacific Gateway
your connection to opportunity

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Canada's Pacific Gateway: your connection to opportunity!

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