End of August, as president of Value Analysis Canada, I was invited to speak at the annual symposium of the Swiss Value Society. This Swiss Society is only a few years old and is working hard to promote the implementation of Value Analysis on projects and in the manufacturing sector.  A group of around 30 persons was present for the 3-day event. I delivered a 3-hour introduction about the Value Methodology as practiced in Canada, and a 90 minute presentation on the state of Value Analysis in Canada and around the world.  Lastly, I presented an example of a project with many constraints showing how VA was used to optimize it. The attendees received perspectives on how we use VA in Canada, not totally European, not totally American. Having studied approaches to VA in both Europe (France) and the US, both  (France and USA) gave Canadian Value practitioners a mix of cultural and methodological differences which has enriched the process. Techniques such as Functional Performance Specification have become incorporated into the tool set of Canadian practitioner, both in Quebec, and across the country.  I believe the VA approach we now use in Canada is an enriched version of the Value Analysis methodology.