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Originally Posted by darklord700
I can see a big company like Encana spending $500K a year to send a person to HK basically wine and dine the tycoons there. And I can even see that person being Gary Mar. But the one difference is, the private sector Gary Mar must bring in business and revenues to justify his expenses there. I don't see that is what the public sector Gary Mar is doing.
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While EnCana is wine and dining tycoons, a political envoy is wining and dining the policy makers so that Alberta companies (like EnCana) can get a better deal, and make more money, which benefits Albertans. We have envoys in the U.S. to make sure that there's a political voice in Washington to help with stuff like Keystone XL, who's main purpose is to provide an oil source to be sold at Brent prices to Asia (where we also have a trade envoy).
The EnCana employee would, presumably have to clear $500K in increased revenues for EnCana to justify their role. A provincial trade envoy would then only need to create a $500K net benefit to Albertans from all industries. In that case, what would be the problem?