H-1B visa: Canada launches new bid to poach skilled tech workers from US

Canada, with a history of seeking to lure away skilled foreign technology workers from Silicon Valley, on Tuesday announced a new program to poach such talent from the U.S. The nation to the north, with a population of 40 million, is once again attempting to leverage foreign workers’ difficulties with the H-1B visa, the work permit of choice for Bay Area companies wanting to employ tech talent. “We’re targeting newcomers that can help enshrine Canada as a world leader in a variety of emerging technologies,” Canada’s immigration minister Sean Fraser said in a statement. Canada’s new “H1-B speci...