Canadian Federation Of Independent Business: Pitney Bowes Canada

Michael Cowpland Dept: A survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business shows 78% of small business owners reported not hiring any recent immigrants between 2003 and 2006, according to Vancouver Sun. Why aren't more entrepreneurs hiring immigrants? How can companies tap this waiting talent pool? For the answers, I talked to Indian-born Deepak Chopra, president of Pitney Bowes Canada, the venerable postal-meter company that has recently made an art of tapping immigrant labour pools to meet its own talent needs and here's a paradox: Business owners constantly complain about scarcity of talent to work in trades or semi-skilled jobs, or the difficulty of finding motivated people willing to work in lower-wage service positions. Yet these same owners often overlook a motherlode of talent right under their noses. It's a shocking oversight. Canada was founded on the sweat and skills of immigrants, from the Scottish engineers and Chinese workers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway to masterful high-tech wizards such as Mitel founders Terry Matthews and Michael Cowpland, RIM's Mike Lazaridis and Kwok Yeun Ho of ATI Technologies. As reported in the news.
@t mike lazaridis, canadian pacific railway