In this Western province of Canada-doped black gold, the growth has dramatically slowed. But not to the point of curbing the will to undertake of the French established out there.

A wall of tropical flowers in warm colours as a cocktail on a beach in the Bahamas as decoration in an office. A wall of vegetables from organic farming and are ready to be harvested in his living room. A green screen is intended to combat asthma in cleaning the air. It is with this kind of promises that Nathalie Callede appeals to its future customers. In Calgary, the metropolis dynamic, economic powerhouse of a province of the West in full boom, the lberta, sell a dream, A it is sell green. In a land where the winter is long, harsh, even depressing with, for months, to only color the white of the snow, the walls green that offers Vertical Oxygen, the company that created the French with her husband, are all the rage.

“set Up her own business here is easy-as everyone shares the same willingness to undertake,” says the bourlingueuse who landed a beautiful day in South Korea in British Columbia. After having worked in the building in a small town in the province of the pacific coast, she moved to Calgary. During the presentation of his first wall of three meters on three, in the course of a show, the public is fascinated : everyone in the world believed that it was plastic…

“A handshake is enough to pass a contract”

“Alberta is in many ways easier than the British Columbia, says the head of the company. The competition is less, the sustained growth and strong demand. Social mobility is not a myth : I saw a young Chinese start at Mcdonald’s and become an engineer after four years.” Aurelien Jondeau can confirm that. After a few years around the world, he also chose to settle in Calgary and open to “paying 42 dollars, and in fifteen minutes,” a company of webdesign and online training, Creative Element : “A handshake is enough to enter into a contract. The division into social classes does not exist, as in France. Suddenly, access is open to environments that are otherwise inaccessible.”

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This “creative energy” that are all the French of Calgary must, of course, a lot also to the optimism generated by the exploitation of new discoveries non-conventional oil in northern Alberta. The province may be home to the third largest oil reserves in the world after saudi Arabia and Venezuela. In the spring of 2015, the fall in the price of crude has certainly frozen over many investments. For how long ? Alberta has been able to boast of having recorded, in 2014, the strongest rate of growth in industrial production (4.4 per cent) of canadian provinces and a growth rate of 4.2% of the economy. The forecasts for 2015 indicate a serious reversal (+ 0.6 %, the lowest rate in the country) but no recession, thanks to a diversification of the economy more important than it seems. For the time being, the building slows down and the unemployment is slightly on the rise again, albeit at a level that can make people dream in France (5.5% of the population).

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