Seven young Native Canadian men have finished a 1, 600km (1, 000-mile) trek to the Canadian capital in protest against living conditions on reserves.
"Jean-Claude is able to open the doors and negotiate on his feet, " says Martin Molyneaux, an analyst at FirstEnergy Capital, a Canadian investment bank in Calgary, Alberta and an Addax underwriter.
It was packed with Canadian companies in search of capital either through a direct listing (difficult, given profitability requirements at the Hong Kong stock exchange) or a partial investment by a cash-laden, resource-hungry Chinese firm.
"Jean-Claude is able to open the doors and negotiate on his feet, " says Martin Molyneaux, an analyst at FirstEnergy (nyse: FE - news - people ) Capital, a Canadian investment bank in Calgary, Alberta and an Addax underwriter.
It is ahead of the Chinese capital Beijing and the Canadian city, Montreal.
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The U.S. has a large pool of available labor, abundant raw materials and falling energy costs, said Paul van Eeden, president of Cranberry Capital, a private Canadian holding company.
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While we gripe about a lack of startup capital, it may be the Canadian startups with the most potential are getting the funded, while the rest are left to bootstrap, borrow, apply for incubators and accelerators, tap into tax credits, etc.
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Thanks to that capability, CIBC is the only Canadian bank that international regulators allow to calculate its own capital needs rather than use boilerplate ratios.
Canadian banks have also weathered the financial crisis relatively unscathed, due in part to their high capital ratios.
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