A business visitor is someone who comes to Canada:

• for international business activities but does not work in Canada
• stay for less than 6 months in Canada
• your main place of business and source of income and profits must be outside Canada
• without directly entering the Canadian labour market

Examples of this include someone who comes to Canada:

• to meet people from companies doing business with their country
• to observe site visits
• because a Canadian company invited them for training in product use, sales, other business transaction or manufacturing functions