The Canada and United States leg of My Most Trusted,
a national and global super-community of
90,536
trusted connections in our Trusted Universe, November 2026
Canada · United States
portage. The overland carry between two waterways. You put the boat on your shoulders so the journey can continue.
Canada-USA Business Bridge Collaboration Group is a working group of business owners on either side of the Canada and United States border, and of the people who have built a life on one side while their family, their training or their first customers came from the other.
The border is the shortest gap in this network and the least crossed. You can stand in Windsor and see Detroit. What almost nobody has is one person on the far bank who will pick up the phone, and until somebody makes that introduction, the distance may as well be an ocean.
It is also where careers move. Members in Canada and United States sometimes meet their next employer, find their next job or make their next hire through Canada-USA Business Bridge Collaboration Group, because the best roles are often filled by someone a trusted person recommends.
A Canadian host cannot vouch for anybody in Ohio, and an American one cannot tell you who actually shows up in Winnipeg. So the group keeps a named person in each country, and neither of them pretends to know the other's room.
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Marc Palud hosts the Canadian side of the Bridge from Winnipeg. He is the founder of SpeedNetworkingLive.com, host of The Transformative Human Podcast, and co-founder of Concourse Benefits. He has spent years building rooms where people actually meet each other rather than collect business cards, and the Bridge applies that same method across a border most networks simply stop at.
More about MarcUnited Statesseat open
The founding American co-lead seat is open. We are looking for one American connector who already runs a room of their own, and who would rather build the US half from nothing than inherit somebody else's members.
Talk to us about itA practical guide to building business relationships across the Canada USA border, why the shortest distance is the hardest one to cross, and how a warm introduction on the other side does what a cold email never will.
Read A checklist before you sign your first client across the Canada-USA borderThe border looks invisible from a video call and very visible on an invoice. A friendly checklist for Canadian and American businesses taking on their first client on the other side.
Through people who already do business south of the border. The Canada-USA Business Bridge Collaboration Group, part of My Most Trusted, is hosted in Canada by Marc Palud, founder of SpeedNetworkingLive.com, who introduces members to US clients and partners through people they trust instead of cold outreach.
Marc Palud hosts the Canadian side from Winnipeg. He is the founder of SpeedNetworkingLive.com, host of The Transformative Human Podcast and co-founder of Concourse Benefits. The US host seat is open. Members are part of My Most Trusted's wider network.
Check tax and invoicing rules on both sides, currency and payment terms, contracts and which law applies, and any licences your work needs. Take professional advice before you sign. The Canada-USA Business Bridge, part of My Most Trusted, can introduce you to trusted advisers who have done it before. Read more
A portage is the stretch where the water runs out and you carry the canoe yourself, so that two separate waterways become one route. It is the oldest North American answer to a gap, it is a French word that both countries kept, and it only works because somebody already knows the path.