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link: World Link Food Distributors Inc. in the Aerotech Business Park near the Halifax Stanfield airport moves millions of pounds of lobster and other seafood every year to dozens of countries, according to The Chronicle Herald. It's like Canada, co-owner and managing director Georges Jobert said of the multicultural and multilingual background of the 18 World Link employees who preside over shipping about eight million pounds of lobsters to retailers and wholesalers around the world. It's scrumptious and potentially lucrative, in any language. We have Chinese, Koreans, French, Belgians, we have people form Newfoundland, P.E.I., and Toronto. His business partner, Liu Yun, who has adopted the anglicized name of Sara since arriving in Canada at about the same time as Jobert, is from China. Jobert, 55, hails from Brittany in the northwest of France and has lived in Canada since the turn of the century. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.