'H1-B problems?' Canadian government erects billboard near Silicon Valley

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is heading to Silicon Valley this weekend to lure high-tech immigrant entrepreneurs to Canada, dangling a new recruitment program that offers immediate permanent residency to qualifying foreigners.

Canada has designed its new Start-up Visa program to make the country more attractive than the United States, where many foreign high-tech workers languish with temporary U.S. visas.

... To drive home its point, the Canadian government has erected a big billboard on a highway that connects the San Francisco airport and Silicon Valley.

Featuring a huge maple leaf, the billboard says: “H1-B problems?” referring to a common U.S. visa for high-tech workers. “Pivot to Canada. New Start-up Visa. Low Taxes,” it reads, offering a Web address to read about the visa.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/kenney-pushes-new-visa-plan-in-silicon-valley/article11924233/

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I wonder if American high tech workers who have been displaced by H1Bs

are eligible...

[Monk06]

2. Sounds like yes to me. Otherwise they would be advertizing in India. Vancouver is crawling with

techies and a new tech park is slated for expansion in Yaletown.