Salon B-15: the room where the Canadian Ambassador receives the Toronto delegation and the kit wears the embroidered maple leaf and tricolour pride
Salon B-15 is the room reserved for binational trade missions and receptions for business chambers and official delegations of corporates with USMCA operations in Mexico, the US and Canada: protocol room with 200 seats in school format with round tables for eight, seating for the welcome committee (corporate CEO, Board Chair, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico or representative, Canadian Consul General in Mexico City, Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico President, Canadian Business Council in Mexico President, PRO Mexico Director, Bancomext Director, Secretariat of Economy Director), 8-metre LED display with investment opportunity presentation system, table microphone audio system and hand microphones for audience questions, simultaneous English-Spanish-French interpretation system when French-Canadian delegates (Quebec) participate in the mission, adjacent waiting room for Canadian and US delegates, adjacent press room for specialised media (Reforma, El Financiero, Expansion, Globe and Mail Mexico, Canadian Business in Spanish, Bloomberg Line Mexico), one-on-one room for individual meetings with top 10 delegates, foyer for coffee break with embroidered maple leaf on the tablecloth and tricolour pride (green, white, red) on the menu. This is where binational trade missions run: official reception of the Canadian delegation by the corporate CEO, corporate presentation to the Canadian delegation, corporate investment opportunity presentation in Mexico, USMCA compliance presentation, bilateral synergy presentation, corporate success case presentation in the Canadian market, Q&A with the welcome committee, networking session with Canadian delegates, binational gala dinner with menu paired by the corporate sommelier. Binational trade missions with US delegations (typically from Texas, California, Illinois, New York, Florida) also run here, bilateral business chamber receptions (Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, British Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, French-Mexican Chamber of Commerce), and trade missions with delegations from Latin America, Europe and Asia. What separates Salon B-15 from a generic protocol room is the diplomatic chain: the merch must arrive with the Mexican foreign service protocol (when the Ambassador or Consul participates), with the Canadian foreign service protocol (when the Canadian delegation participates), with USMCA compliance when the merch crosses the border as part of the binational disclosure material, and with tricolour pride (green, white, red) embroidered on each piece as a symbol of Mexican corporate diplomacy.