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."

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Near-shore is still off-shore

[fembots]

I think near-shore or off-shore makes no difference as they're still outsourcing, ie taking away jobs which could have been given to locals.

Bush said druing a debate that he will let Mexicans to come to US to work legally, and gradually obtain residency. If this happens, the Canadian-Indian issue is small in comparison.

Maybe the ideal "screening" is based on the percentage of employees' residency status, so if over 50% of a Canadian company is from developing countries, it's no deal.

Re:Near-shore is still off-shore

[Drakon]

The argument is basically that illegal foreigners working in the united states have jobs which may have otherwise gone to unemployed americans, whome the government is supposed to represent.
However, if they are working legally, then they have to be working at least at minimum wage, which means there is little or no incentive to hire them rather than an unemployed american citizen, which means that basically they're contributing to the economy. I believe maddox wrote something about this,

this doesn't worry me, for some reason.

[wintermute1000]

I think it's because there was a fad for awhile for directors of TV and movies to film in Canada, because it was cheaper, and for a little while a lot of places in Southern California were feeling it. But then prices started going up in the areas in Canada where filming was being done because there was awareness that there were lots of rich people there all of a sudden, and the locals acted accordingly. It'll balance itself out. At least, in my youthful optimism, I'm going to hope it will.

Re:why do we care what kerry said?

[twiggy]

I knew from the post that someone would immediately whine that it mentioned Kerry's stance.. and immediately wanted to post something about it...

Slashdot is not a TV or radio network. There is no reason for it to give "equal time" or avoid showing bias. It's "news for nerds" - it doesn't claim to be nonpartisan (or partisan).

The internet is not the same as other "media outlets", and Slashdot has no "responsibility" to be any certain way.

Thats transitivity for ya

[Ars-Fartsica]

The US has two free trade agreements with Canada, so get used to finding out what agreements Canada has with other nations..they will quickly become agreements with the US by transitivity.

Also please remember that the US has spent the last twenty five years literally ramming free trade down the world's collective throat (admittedly, an effort made on behalf of the financial elite, not workers).

Pot Kettle situation

[niall2]

If I hadn't been through all of this election I probably wouldn't have believed my eyes. This report from last February from people in Wisconson finding Caller ID signatures from Canada for the Kerry Election Call Center? Makes you wonder if there will be political loopholes in any laws similar to those for the National No Call list.

Re:Guess this makes Canada...

[mdfst13]

Also French (as verified by a girl who transferred to my high school which had French classes from a school which had Latin classes), Portuguese, and Romanian. Learning Latin makes it very easy to learn the other five Romance (Latin-based) languages.

It can also improve one's English, since English has many words that derive from Latin.