In the News 2005 - By The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)

Immigrants offer world of opportunity for Sask. business

By Frank Goldberg in Winnipeg.

When more than 50 people show up for a breakfast seminar on immigration, it's a sign how much local business leaders are starting to worry about finding enough skilled workers.

By The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)December 2, 2005

When more than 50 people show up for a breakfast seminar on immigration, it's a sign how much local business leaders are starting to worry about finding enough skilled workers.

Last week, the Prairie Policy Institute featured Adele Dyck, a Manitoba entrepreneur from Winkler. Her company, Star 7 International Inc., has directly and indirectly contributed about 8,000 people to Manitoba's population in the past decade.

The company has directly recruited 1,000 workers for Manitoba companies. The other 7,000 are a result of the total immigration effect when spouses, children, parents, siblings and other extended family members join the original recruit in Canada.
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Dyck says the first 50 families she worked with who came from Germany almost a decade ago were ones she saw as having "strong leadership skills." They were people for whom giving up was not an option.

"You need people with skills and relatives, because without your families, people get pretty lonely," she said.
It's worked.

Of those first 50 immigrants, 42 are still in Manitoba nearly a decade later, she says.

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