‘We’ve got open doors’: Texas lures Western Canadian businesses south - Global News

The brochure’s cover has the Texas flag as a backdrop and shows an arrow pointing from Alberta to the Lone Star State.“Arrowstar Realty invites you to relocate to Texas,” reads the mailer sent to businesses across Western Canada recently. “Join the 100s of companies that have already made the move!”Story continues belowInside is a letter — beginning “Dear Canadian Neighbour” — boasting of Montgomery County’s “BOOMING” economy, tax incentives and ranch-style properties. It offers to link prospective clients with banks, accountants and lawyers to ease their move.READ MORE: Kenney gets rid of 8 more regulatory barriers to ‘strengthen interprovincial trade’Realtor Robert Graham says 15,000 brochures have been delivered in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia so far. Another 50,000 are coming.He says Arrowstar has helped about 100 western Canadian companies move north of Houston in the last decade, and 40 of them were in the last year and a half.The majority of newcomers have been Canadian oil and gas drillers, a sector that has hit a rough patch in recent years.“I definitely want Canada to pick back up. I would love for that more than anything,” says Graham.But for now, he says, a lot of Canadian businesses need help to keep going.WATCH: Small Alberta city’s economy depends on foreign workers

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September 23, 2019 at 12:04AM