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India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada
securitas writes "Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada. The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers."
I guess that makes me an evildoer, eh? Ah well, at least Guantanamo Bay will be warmer than Winnipeg this winter.
Trolling is a art,
Blame Canada?
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If Dell outsources their tech support to Canada, at least I'll be able to understand the guy as opposed to the current situation....
Did they follow proper disclosure procedures and report the backdoor to the Canadian government before submitting it to Slashdot?
Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers.
Good thing there's only Call Centres in Canada, then. (Spelling loophole?)
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Be sure you show George where we are on the map. It could be embarassing seeing him saying how great Canada's burritos and Corona are after he conquers Mexico.
Trolling is a art,
I can't wait until something bad happens to your country.
If the list you posted was accurate, I hope you live in France.
I guess he could by lying.
I personally think Kerry's record shows that he has integrity, and that he'll at least try to keep this promise.
Matt
from an old episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes
An Apology to Americans
By Reporter 'Anthony St. George' (Performed by Colin Mochrie)
Hello. I'm Anthony St. George on location here in Washington.
On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't reflect poorly on the people of America. After all, it's not like you actually elected him.
I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we have more trees than you, doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your own. It would be like if, well, say you had ten times the television audeince we did and you flood our market with great shows, cheaper than we could produce. I know you'd never do that.
I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our defence I guess our excuse would be that our team was much, much, much, much better than yours. As word of apology, please accept all of our NHL teams which, one by one, are going out of business and moving to your fine country.
I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when you're going up against a crazed dictator, you want to have your friends by your side. I realize it took more than two years before you guys pitched in against Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew he had weapons.
I'm sorry we burnt down your White House during the War of 1812. I see you've rebuilt it! It's very nice.
I'm sorry for Alan Thicke, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Loverboy, that song from Seriff that ends with a really high-pitched long note. Your beer. I know we had nothing to do with your beer, but we feel your pain.
And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that we're constantly apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly veiled criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not upset over this. Because we've seen what you do to countries you get upset with.
For 22 minutes, I'm Anthony St. George, and I'm sorry.
You're allowed to smack Texans upside the head. They usually deserve it.
Why does not someone just come up with a real-time accent and artifact removal filter. For Indians you will need to spread out the syllables while maintaining the pitch. For Canadians you will have to remove the trailing "eh" from sentences.
I would suppose you could optimize the filter per individual and maybe one of the options on the phone menu is that you can select the dialect you are comfortable with. For example you can select:
+ West Texas drawl (replace all "you" with a you'all so "you do have the power turned on eh?" becomes "ya'all do have the power the turn").
+ New York/Jerseyan insulting snarl (remove all r's from the stream and add a little color. For example "Yo you idiot, you do have the powe tuned on doncha."
Except for the fact that what politicians call "free trade" isn't free at all. These are micromanaged trade agreements running hundreds or thousands of pages long.
Like "deregulation" and "privatize", the term has been twisted by the politicians to prevent the public from ever wanting it. It's orwellian language redefining in action.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Well, it wouldn't be the first invasion that had "gone south" on him.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
> It could be embarassing seeing him saying how great Canada's
> burritos and Corona are after he conquers Mexico.
Would that be more or less embarrassing than when Dan Quayle was heading for Latin America and mentioned that he needed to brush up on his Latin?
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