The CQCC\u00a0is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with\u00a0Scandinavian 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce (SGLCC) on August 16, 2018, during the 2018 NGLCC international Business & Leadership Conference, in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
This agreement was signed in the context of the first-ever government-led 2SLGBTQI+Q2 Trade Mission to the United States. We were honored to have the presence of the Hon. Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, M.P. Randy Boissonnault, Special Advisor to Prime Minister on 2SLGBTQI+Q2 Issues, the Canadian Consul General in New York, Phyllis Yaffe, and the Swedish Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Karin Olofsdotter, at the signing of the agreement.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the agreement is to foster cooperation and partnership between the members of both organizations, in particular through greater 2SLGBTQI+ supplier inclusion as well as contracting and strategic teaming opportunities.<\/p>\n
The SGLCC covers\u00a0four\u00a0countries, namely Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and its goal is to provide a forum for communication and understanding between corporation and the 2SLGBTQI+-community, including to empower small business-owners and increase their possibilities to\u00a0become international suppliers. The CQCC\u00a0is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with\u00a0Scandinavian 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce (SGLCC) on August 16, 2018, during the 2018 NGLCC international Business & Leadership Conference, in Philadelphia. This agreement was signed in the context of the first-ever government-led 2SLGBTQI+Q2 Trade Mission to the United States. We were honored to have the presence of the Hon. Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, M.P. Randy Boissonnault, Special Advisor to Prime Minister on 2SLGBTQI+Q2 Issues, the Canadian Consul General in New York, Phyllis Yaffe, and the Swedish Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Karin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","editor_notices":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/mou-signing_orig-893x675-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60947,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60946\/revisions\/60947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queerchamber.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSimilar agreements already exist between the CQCC and the United States, Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and East Meets West, a non-profit business association based in Vienna, Austria\u00a0covering\u00a016\u00a0countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
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\nFor further information, please consult the SGLCC website (https:\/\/www.sglcc.se\/sglcc-in-english-1<\/a>) or\u00a0contact the CQCC\/Global Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"