Microsoft’s Training Centre in BC – Mostly foreigners

A majority of workers at a new Microsoft Canada training centre in Vancouver would be drawn from the ranks of foreigners, according to draft plans obtained under British Columbia’s freedom of information laws.

Both the federal and provincial governments have praised the Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre as a project that will boost the B.C. economy and create 400 jobs, mainly in software and services engineering.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at  Microsoft’s new B.C. workforce to consist mostly of foreigners: draft plan – Politics – CBC News.