Guides

The corridor, written as method.

Thirteen guides from the work WeOpen does in public: the actual requirements for small and large businesses, the funding and immigration maps, the trade corridors, what Canada is building and the facts the world misses, plus the method: qualifying a buyer, reading a programme, the 90 days and the mission that gets a signed next step.

• Exporters7 minHow a Canadian exporter qualifies a Gulf buyer in 30 days: the questions, the order, the evidenceThe 30 day qualification we run in the first phase of the WeOpen framework: who the buyer is, whether they can import what you make, what they pay for today, and the four pieces of evidence that turn a conversation into a counterpart.Read the guide
• Exporters6 minExport readiness: the twelve questions a Gulf buyer will ask a Canadian supplierThe questions that come up in the first serious conversation with a Gulf buyer or distributor, grouped as product, paperwork, money and people, and what a ready answer looks like for each.Read the guide
• Investors7 minLanding a UAE or Gulf business in Canada: entity, bank, tax, people and site, in the order that worksThe sequence an international business follows to open in Canada: the structure decision, federal or provincial incorporation, the bank account, tax registrations, hiring, the site, and the incentives to check only after the rest is real.Read the guide
• Everyone5 minHow to read a Canadian incentive programme before you count on it: six checksThe six checks that separate an incentive you can plan with from one you cannot: eligibility, timing, stacking, labour conditions, refundability and the current guide. With the official sources the WeOpen incentives page points to.Read the guide
• Everyone6 minThe 90 day market entry plan, week by week, for exporters and investorsThe WeOpen framework as a working calendar: qualify and screen in days 1 to 30, structure and align in 31 to 60, contract and mobilise in 61 to 90, with what is done each week and what exists at the end of it.Read the guide
• Delegations6 minThe trade mission playbook: how a delegation gets a signed next step, not a photographBefore, during and after a trade mission or summit: who to meet and why, the one-page company brief, the meeting that gets a next step, and the fourteen days after that decide whether anything happened.Read the guide
• Investors8 minStarting a small business in Canada as a newcomer or foreign owner: the actual requirements, in orderBusiness number, incorporation (federal or provincial), the tax accounts, the bank, licences and permits, payroll, and what a foreign owner can and cannot do, with the official pages for each step.Read the guide
• Investors8 minInvesting in Canada at scale: the Investment Canada Act, national security review, sector limits and the approvals a large project needsWhat a large foreign investor must file and when: Investment Canada Act notifications and net benefit review with the 2026 thresholds, national security review, Competition Act notification, sector-specific limits, and the project approvals that the Major Projects Office now coordinates.Read the guide
• Investors7 minImmigration pathways for founders, investors and key staff in 2026: what is open, what is paused, and how companies actually move peopleThe federal Start-up Visa is paused; Ontario closed its entrepreneur stream in May 2026 and is redesigning it. What remains: intra-company transfers, significant benefit work permits, the Global Talent Stream, provincial entrepreneur streams outside Ontario, and Express Entry. Facts from the official pages, no advice.Read the guide
• Everyone7 minCanada's trade corridors in 2026: the UAE agreement, Europe, Asia-Pacific, India and what each one means for a companyCanada has 16 free trade agreements covering 51 countries. In 2026 it signed with the UAE, is negotiating with India, ASEAN and Mercosur, and held a leaders' summit with the EU. What is in force, what is signed, what is being negotiated, and how a company uses each.Read the guide
• Everyone7 minWhat Canada is building: LNG, nuclear, critical minerals, ports and corridors on the Major Projects list, and where a foreign company fitsThe nation-building projects the Major Projects Office has taken on since September 2025: LNG Canada Phase 2, the Darlington SMRs, Ksi Lisims LNG, Contrecoeur and Roberts Bank terminals, nickel, copper, graphite and tungsten mines, and two corridors. What each is, and the supply chain roles a foreign company can play.Read the guide
• Everyone6 minHidden Canada: twelve things about the country that investors abroad rarely hear, with the source for eachThe facts that do not travel: the lowest net debt in the G7, second in the G20 for doing business, first for infrastructure investment attractiveness in 2026, the highest FDI inflows per capita in the G7, 16 agreements and 51 countries, and the projects, minerals and energy behind them.Read the guide
• Investors7 minGrants, tax credits and financing for companies in Canada: the programmes that exist, who they are for, and how to read themA plain map of Canadian business funding: CanExport, IRAP, the Strategic Innovation Fund, SR&ED, the clean economy investment tax credits, the regional agencies, BDC, EDC, the Infrastructure Bank and the Growth Fund, plus the provincial investment agencies. Each with its official page and status as checked.Read the guide