We would like to thank our Sustaining and Corporate members for their continued support of the Canadian Club of Chicago. Blake, Cassels & Graydon Blakes is a leading Canadian business law firm. We have over 500 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London, and Beijing, practising Canadian law. We serve a diverse Canadian and international client base in virtually every area of business law. Blakes is the only Canadian law firm with an office in Chicago. Blakes was rated as the Top-ranked Canadian Law Firm for U.S. Public Company Mergers and Acquisitions in 2003 by Global Securities Information, Inc. and Canadian Law Firm of the Year for 2004 by Chambers and Partners Legal Publishers. To learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Blakes.com Blistex Blistex Inc. is an Oak Brook, IL based health care products company, which has had a significant presence in Canada since 1950. Among the products offered in Canada are two consumer favorites, Blistex lip care and Glysomed cream and lotion. BP www.bp.com Canadian Consulate General The Consulate General’s Trade and Investment section promotes business development, investment and offers advisory services to Canadian companies looking to build their export business in Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and parts of western Iowa and northwestern Indiana. It also works with U.S. companies to assist with out-sourcing, cooperation, alliances and/or direct investment. Our Political Economic and Public Affairs section assists visiting Canadian artists, promotes Canadian studies in Midwestern colleges, informs American students about higher education opportunities in Canada, and provides consular services to Canadians working or traveling in the region. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Canadian Consulate General Carl Buddig The name Carl Buddig has long been synonymous with quality meat. In fact, the Buddig name first appeared on a small butcher shop on the south side of Chicago way back in the late 1880s. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Carl Buddig Corn Products Corn Products International, Inc., headquartered in Westchester, Ill., is one of the world’s largest corn refiners. Dating back almost a century, Corn Products International is a leading supplier of products from the corn-refining process—sweeteners and starches. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Corn Products Fragomen, Del Rey, Bersen & Loewy LLP Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP (FRAGOMEN) is the leading provider of corporate immigration services and solutions. Founded in 1951, FRAGOMEN has over 130 attorneys and over 500 professional immigration specialists and staff located in 25 offices* in the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe. FRAGOMEN works in partnership with clients to facilitate the hiring and transfer of employees worldwide. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at FRAGOMEN Freeborn & Peters LLP Freeborn & Peters LLP is a Chicago-based law firm comprised of over 120 attorneys dedicated to a single purpose: providing boardroom-level counsel to top executives on a wide range of business and legal matters while maintaining a high level of responsiveness and individual attention. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Freeborn & Peters Fifth Third Bank Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Company has $104.6 billion in assets, operates 19 affiliates with 1,106 full-service Banking Centers, including 125 Bank Mart® locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 1,996 Jeanie® ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The financial strength of Fifth Third’s Ohio and Michigan banks continues to be recognized by rating agencies with deposit ratings of AA- and Aa1 from Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, respectively. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Fifth Third Bank IPSCO IPSCO Inc. is a publicly traded corporation with operations spanning the U.S. and Canada. The Company was incorporated in 1956 under the name of Prairie Pipe Ltd. At that time pipemaking facilities were installed at the Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada site. Over the years the Company expanded on both the Regina site and elsewhere through new construction as well as acquisition. In 1984, the Company changed its name to IPSCO Inc., adopting the acronym by which it was generally known, as its full name. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at IPSCO Kraft Foods Our company is built on a history of quality and innovation that dates backs literally hundreds of years. Over that time, Kraft Foods has grown from modest beginnings to become the second largest food and beverage company in the world. But no matter what our size, we've never lost sight of why we're here -- to help make food a simpler, easier, more enjoyable part of life. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Kraft KPMG KPMG member firms are a leading provider of assurance, tax and legal, and financial advisory services. With a global approach to service delivery, KPMG responds to clients' complex business challenges with consistent methodologies and common tools across industry sectors and national boundaries. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at KPMG McMillan Binch LLP Founded in 1903, McMillan Binch provides a full range of business legal services and definitive advice to corporate and financial services clients in Canada, the US and abroad. Our core practice areas of mergers & acquisitions, financial services, corporate restructuring & insolvency and competition/antitrust are fully supported by our experts in tax, litigation, real estate, labour & employment, public policy and other specialized practice areas. Our extensive cross-Canada and cross-border experience has earned us global recognition in several key areas of practice. To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at McMillan Binch LLP Morton Salt WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS®. For generations, this slogan and the little girl who made it famous have made Morton® Salt a familiar sight in many American homes. Since 1848, we've been America's leading producer of salt for grocery, water softening, ice control, agricultural and industrial uses. If you thought the Morton story began and ended with a little girl and an umbrella, we've got a lot to show you. Morton products aren't just for cooking! To Learn more about our company, please visit us on the web at Morton Salt NORBIC NORBIC is an economic development organization that promotes job growth and community advancement through the provision of professional and technical services to manufacturers located in the State of Illinois' Northeast Economic Development Region. To Learn more, please visit us on the web at NORBIC Quebec Delegation Chicago Québec established its Midwest representation more than 30 years ago in a territory comprising 12 states that stretch from Ohio in the east, to North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas in the west. With such major urban centers as Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee, the Midwest region is one of Québec's major trading partners in the United States. The Québec Delegation in Chicago seeks to broaden the economic, cultural and tourism links between Québec and the Midwest. To Learn more, please visit us on the web at Quebec Delegation Chicago Sidley Austin LLP With over 1,600 lawyers and 15 offices in North America, Europe and Asia, Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world’s largest law firms. We combine experience, in-depth knowledge and quality to provide outstanding service to our local, regional, national and international clients. Sidley enjoys a proud history of representing many of the leading Canadian businesses across the United States. In recent years, BTI Consulting Group has ranked Sidley as one of the top law firms for client service. In 2005, Sidley was named to their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in the Client Service Top 10 for five years in a row. For both 2005 and 2003, Sidley was named the number one U.S. law firm for overall client service and in 2006 was named the number one law firm in BTI's survey, The Power Rankings: The BTI Client Relationship Scorecard for Law Firms. 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