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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.
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 Better 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 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.